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Pinuccia Montanari resigns from Raggi administration. Rome's environment councillor Pinuccia Montanari resigned from her post on the evening of 8 February. Montanari's surprise resignation follows her decision to vote...
City assembly passes motion to evict far-right group from illegally occupied Rome building. Rome city council has passed a motion calling for the "immediate eviction" of the far-right organisation CasaPound from a city...
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Italy's deputy premier embroiled in social media spat with Rome mayor. Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi and Italy's deputy premier Matteo Salvini have been involved in a spat on social media following a fatal shooting outsid...
Virginia Raggi cleared of charge of lying over city hall appointment.Rome mayor Virginia Raggi has been acquitted by a court of charges of making false public statements about a senior city appointment dating back to the...
Romadicebasta protest at Campidoglio attracts 10,000 Romans. Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has dismissed the estimated 10,000 protestors who showed up at city hall as the "old guard of the Partito Democratico", the centre...
Mattarella appoints Giuseppe Conte as prime minister and approves new list of ministers. President Sergio Mattarella has appointed law professor and political novice Giuseppe Conte to head up a coalition government comp...
The populist Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) and right-wing Lega agree a government ‘contract’, but who will head the new executive remains unclear. The populist Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) and right-wing Lega have sa...
M5s and Lega reject Mattarella proposal, PD gives support Italy must either give itself a ‘neutral’ government with cross-party support that will hold office until the end of the year pending new elections in 2019 or re...
New exploratory government formation mandate after talks with Lega fail Chamber of deputies speaker Roberto Fico of the anti-establishment Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) has been asked to explore the possibility of for...
Casellati must “verify existence of majority between centre-right and M5S” Senate speaker Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati of Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party has been asked to see if she can get the centre-righ...
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Roberto Fico of M5S elected in the chamber of deputies, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati of Forza Italia in the senate. Roberto Fico of the anti-establishment Movimento Cinque Stelle (M5S) and Maria Elisabetta Alber...
Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini the new forces in Italian politics. Although counting is still underway it is now clear that the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) and the Lega are the two main winners of Italy's general electio...
Four rallies taking place in Rome amid rising political tensions. Rome police chiefs have drawn up a security plan to deal with four separate demonstrations scheduled in the capital on Saturday 24 February, as political...
Tight security and street closures in Rome for visit of Turkish leader.Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will pay an official two-day visit to Rome on 4-5 February, during which time he will meet Pope Francis, Itali...
US senate confirms Trump's nomination for the Holy See. Callista Gingrich is the new US ambassador-designate to the Holy See following the US senate's 70-23 approval of her 19 May nomination by President Trump.As amba...
 Trump nominee Lewis Eisenberg to represent US in Italy and San Marino. Lewis Eisenberg, the new United States ambassador-designate to Italy, arrived in Rome on 1 October and is expected to present his credentials to...
Rome prosecutors drop abuse of office accusation against mayor.Prosecutors have requested that Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi, of the anti-establishment Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S), be indicted for alleged false public stateme...
Raggi opposes Forza Nuova plan to commemorate Mussolini march.A planned demonstration in central Rome by far-right political party Forza Nuova (FN) faces opposition from the city's mayor Virginia Raggi as well as Rome me...
Opposition claim surprise move proves Raggi's "negative record" in office. Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi has appointed Gianni Lemmetti as new budget councillor for the capital, the fourth person in a year to hold the posi...
Results a blow to PD secretary Renzi as he struggles to reunite party. The centre right scored a clear victory in local election run-offs across Italy on 25 June, taking almost all of the 22 regional or provincial cap...
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