The Romans go to the polls the day after a massive demonstration in the capital of Italy to demand the prohibition from the extreme right, after violent protests against the health passport the week before.
The polls favor the center-left candidate, the former Minister of Economy and Finance Roberto Gualtieri (Democratic Party, PD), in front of the candidate of the right and extreme right Enrico Michetti, lawyer and radio host. They are both 55 years old.
In the first round, Michetti obtained 30% of the vote and Gualtieri 27%, but this should be done with a good part of the votes of the independent centrist candidate Carlo Calenda and the outgoing mayor Virginia Rays (5 Star Movement, anti-system), eliminated in the first round.
Michetti was accused of anti-Semitism following an article last year in which he claimed that there was a Jewish “lobby” capable of deciding the fate of the planet.
And during the pandemic, he suggested using the Roman salute with one arm raised – as in fascism – since, according to him, it was more hygienic.
Michetti has the support of an alliance of far-right parties Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy) of Giorgia Meloni and La Liga de Matteo Salvini with the right-wing formation Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi.
Salvini dismissed the demonstration against the extreme right on Saturday as an electoral strategy of the left.
The election campaign in Rome was dominated by complaints about the degradation of this metropolis of 2.8 million inhabitants. The situation has become so bad that wild boars, attracted by the garbage that is piled up in the middle of the street, circulate freely in some residential areas.
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