The second round of local elections saw 5Star’s Virginia Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer, win the capital with 67.15 percent of the vote to become Rome’s first female mayor. Renzi’s candidate, Roberto Giachetti, gathered 32.85 percent of the vote.
In Turin in the north, Chiara Appendino, a 31-year-old manager, won with almost 55 percent.
Renzi’s Democratic Party managed to win Milan, Italy’s business hub, but the prime minister emerges battered from Sunday’s vote, across 121 municipalities, which was being closely watched for signs of who is likely to oppose the former mayor of Florence in the general elections, expected in 2018. [...]
Silvio Berlusconi on the center right and Matteo Salvini’s far-right Northern League party both scored poorly. Berlusconi’s candidate Stefano Parisi lost in Milan, while Salvini lost in nearby Varese, an area where the Northern League had previously enjoyed high support.
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