
The secretary of the Democratic Party announces support for the mayor and openness to the expansion of the majority
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Roberto Gualtieri has launched his re-election bid for mayor of Rome. Elly Schlein, secretary of the Democratic Party, expressed full support, citing the city's transformation work on housing, transport and services, and the openness to an enlargement of the majority.
Full support for Mayor Roberto Gualtieri who is running for re-election to continue the work of great transformation of this city by putting the accessibility of housing, transport and services at the centre. A great work of modernization and urban regeneration We support him, of course, also in what he has declared to be an effort to further broaden the majority that supports him. So we will be at his side". This was said by the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein, on the sidelines of the event in which the mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri launched his re-nomination. At the end of the event Schlein reached Gualtieri and the two joined in a hug.
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