“Enough with the continuous soap opera”. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi returns to the attack against the mayor of Rome Ignatius Marino and also towards the governor of the Sicily Region Crocetta Rosary. In an interview granted to Tg5, the prime minister spoke of Marino and Crocetta's administrative experiences and struck down the blow by stating: «They deal with concrete things, with people's problems, put their cities in order, sort out health care. If they are able to govern let them go ahead, otherwise they go home».
And it is not the first time that the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi goes straight to the clash with the mayor of Rome Ignazio Marino. The two now live separately at home within the Democratic Party so that their collaboration is reduced to a minimum. Just think of the events related to the Extraordinary jubilee which will begin in Rome in a few months, at investigations into Mafia Capital which overwhelmed the Capitoline administration and some key men of the majority in the Capitoline assembly and also to the disastrous local public transport system managed by the municipalized Atac and now collapsing. A very hard lunge, that of Renzi against Marino, which arrives with perfect timing after the New York Times put on the front page the degradation and decline of a capital that the Romans themselves know well is now collapsing. The article in the American newspaper reads about the city's many problems: from the grass in the knee-high parks, to the white strike in the metro, passing through the scandals of Mafia Capitale. Mayor Marino is portrayed as an honest man, like a Forrest Gump “whose virtues are at the same time his problem”.
But the Mayor Marino he doesn't give up an inch and remains firm in his seat as mayor of the capital. In an interview granted to Mauro Favale di Repubblica, the surgeon-mayor states: "I have now interrupted the mechanisms of direct money transmission for many months, which led to the infiltration of the capital Mafia up to the top management at the time of Alemannic. I feel responsible for this: for pressing reset, for interrupting the method that benefited the criminals“. And on Renzi's aut aut towards him, Mayor Marino replies without worries: “Citizens should understand that we are in the midst of a change. The Romans are intelligent and they realize when they are dealing with people who give their all” and then he adds: “I want to wait for the assessments of a rigorous servant of the state like Minister Alfano. Then there will be the announcement: we will indicate our priorities for the next few months, a 'mid-term' program which will focus on transport and cleaning. They will be our daily mantra."
