“I'm very well, I'm going to celebrate a wedding”. The day after resignation, the mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino does not give in to despair and shows up in the Campidoglio for a wedding in the red room. He enters through a secondary door, the so-called 'Porta delle Lance' thus eluding the numerous journalists and photographers who awaited his arrival. But then he gives in and celebrates the wedding of Jamie and Matteo to whom he read a poem by Pablo Neruda.
The political day is just beginning and now the game of succession is opening. The total names include Alfio Marchini who would be well regarded both in the center-right and in the center-left, and Giorgia Meloni candidate by Salvini (Lega) but also big names such as Raffaele Cantone, current president of the Anti-Corruption Authority and Dario Franceschini, Minister of Cultural Heritage. Among the possible candidates there would also be the president of Coni Giovanni Malagò and Roberto Giachetti, vice president of the Chamber.
Meanwhile he, Marino, announces lawsuits: “I read in some newspapers phrases that are attributed to me. I deny them. I never said 'now I'll name names': all of this is false and I'm forced once again to proceed with the lawsuits in addition to the requests for damages in the civil court”, said the former mayor in a statement released this morning.
“These are falsehoods that I have never uttered. I see that there is talk of my phone calls with Matteo Orfini – he continues – which never took place yesterday, I see sentences of mine on non-existent emails from Walter Veltroni published in La Repubblica, sentences published in Corriere della Sera in which it is attributed to me that "Now I'll name names." All of this is false."
