Virginia Raggi has been mayor of Rome since June 2016. PAimages/Andrea Ronchini/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire. All rights reserved.
What happened to Virginia Raggi? Eight months after a stunning victory that propelled her into office as the first female mayor of Rome, the cabinet of the 38 year-old lawyer and representative of the Five-Star Movement (M5S) has been engulfed in controversies that have, her detractors argue, seriously undermined the credibility of her and the movement.
According to its critics, the Five Star Movement's biggest problem today is that it seems to lack the political and administrative experience to govern important cities, let alone Italy as a whole. But the highly disenfranchised Italian electorate does not seem to be bothered.
