Rome turns right

A few weeks after Silvio Berlusconi won the parliamentary elections, the right-wing's candidate Gianni Alemanno beat Francesco Rutelli of the centre-left Democratic Party to become mayor of Rome on April 28th. Ezio Mauro comments that the whole of Italy has lurched to the right. "Rome was all that was left. ... Rome had been a historic bastion of the left, which had governed it continuously for fifteen years. ... Italy's largest city had been in the hands a modern, experimental 'mayoral left', which skillfully combined efficient administration with new cultural discourses. All that was shattered yesterday...The result is clear: the North belongs to the League, the South to Raffaele Lombardo [MPA independence party, president of Sicily region], Rome to the National Alliance, and Italy to Berlusconi."

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