Today there is a great capital of trust: Rome can change. And I say it officially, this is why we are here: I have decided to run again to continue to change the city. With people at the centre". This was said by the mayor of Roberto Gualtieri, at the opening of his electoral campaign in view of the 2027 municipal elections, at the public event at the Auditorium della Conciliazione, with the coalition that will support him. "The city has changed me and has also changed my relationship with the people", added the mayor speaking of his experience as mayor.
Gualtieri aims "for a transformation that must continue and at the same time must be increasingly broad and participatory in the way it addresses citizens and also in the way it tries to involve the best forces of the city".
"We hope to soon have another government that will really help us have another housing plan. We hope that Europe will put the tools for this issue in its toolbox. "And that it will force governments to take action on housing policies" when there are "cities or regions in difficulty", he added. Speaking about the climate crisis, Gualtieri defined the right as "retrograde". And among the answers to be given to Rome on the matter: "One of the most important things to do is to depave and put more greenery in our city", he specified.
And for the first time in the capital, at least in the last 10 years, all the forces of the center-left have gathered around the mayor. The audience brings together representatives of the Democratic Party, of the forces that already support the Capitoline majority and of those with whom dialogue is open to broaden the coalition. Like M5s and Action.
In the front row, dem secretary Elly Schlein, sitting between Claudio Mancini and Marta Bonafoni. For the Democratic Party present, among others, Cecilia D'Elia, Beatrice Lorenzin, Nicola Zingaretti, Michela Di Biase, Filippo Sensi, Andrea Casu, Matteo Orfini and Emanuela Droghei, together with the Roman and regional secretaries Enzo Foschi and Daniele Leodori, the founder of Più Uno, Ernesto Maria Ruffini. Representing Italia Viva are Roberto Giachetti, Luciano Nobili and Marianna Madia, as well as the Capitoline councilors Francesca Leoncini, Valerio Casini and Marco Cappa.
For the Green Alliance and the Left, the parliamentarian Filiberto Zaratti, while for the Sinistra Civica Ecologista, regional councilor Claudio Marotta and the mini-mayor Amedeo Ciaccheri were also in the room. Also at the meeting were the representatives of the 5 Star Movement, with the Roman coordinator Linda Meleo, the deputy Francesco Silvestri and the Capitoline councilors Paolo Ferrara and Daniele Diaco. Former mayor Virginia Raggi is absent. From Carlo Calenda's party, Action, the deputy Valentina Grippo and the Roman secretary Alessio D'Amato and the Capitoline councilors were in the room. Of the over 3 thousand people who registered for the public event, all the Capitoline councilors were in the audience, along with the city councilors and the presidents of the municipality.
In addition to the political forces that supported Gualtieri during the first council meeting, the mayor of Rome thanked "the other forces that are here and in the opposition who have started a very positive dialogue, naturally starting from the 5 Star Movement and Action" thanking them for "the way in which they interpreted the opposition" and for having "gradually tried more and more to deal with the issues and started a dialogue, a common path", then launched the slogan "Rome, everyone ahead".
Gualtieri in particular launched an "appeal to the city: be a fourth party to the bet and electoral challenge. Not only do we want to strengthen our majority and the civic vocation of our administration, but we also want to be protagonists in an expansion of the coalition that goes beyond the current borders. My goal is that the friends of the M5s and Action present here can be part of this challenge". The goal, Gualtieri reiterated, is to have a "broad, inclusive coalition, open to multiple political forces". "Let's all move forward together", he added.
"Full support for Mayor Roberto Gualtieri who is standing 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 enlarge the majority that supports him. So we will be at his side", said the secretary of the Democratic Party, Elly Schlein who at the end of the event reached Gualtieri and she hugged him.
