Rome, waste emergency: Rays to vote among mice, wild boars and seagulls

By dint of hiding one's head in the sand, the knots come to a head and for the outgoing mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, they arrive right in the middle of the electoral campaign. Steps for the embarrassing gaffe on the plate for the president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (who had become "Azelio" for the Campidoglio offices), given that Raggi collected many gaffes during his troubled tenure at the helm of the Municipality: what count now is the new waste emergency which is throwing Rome into crisis and which once again exposes the inefficiency of the grillina council.

To indulge the late environmentalist soul of the Five Stars, Raggi always has refused the opening of a landfill to dispose of waste, as loudly requested by the Region led by Nicola Zingaretti, and condemned the city to a perennial waste emergency, which makes the Capital unworthy not only in the eyes of tourists, but also of those who live and work there. Now the resumption of activities and the reopening of restaurants after the lockdown is making the degradation unbearable, not only because garbage bags submerge streets and squares but because they attract more and more wild boars, mice and seagulls, who are transforming one of the most beautiful cities in the world into an open-air zoo.

So far Raggi has tried to hide (so to speak) reality spending prohibitive sums to transfer the waste of the Romans to other cities, but the circle is closing and the willingness of other regions to welcome the monnezza of the Capital becomes more and more difficult while, the tug of war between the Municipality and the Region on the landfill has become open confrontation.

From the bad Alemanno junta onwards, Roman citizens - this must be said - have not shown great foresight in the last ten years in choosing the first citizens and have often let themselves be fascinated by the sirens of the most banal populism, but the showdown is approaching. One wonders if the mountains of waste are for Raggi the best way to conduct an electoral campaign in which every promise is in vain in the face of the city's degradation, despite the polls that believe the outgoing mayor is still able to get to the ballot , with serious disturbances of the Pd. But the municipal elections are still a few months away and perhaps it is not arbitrary to think that even the most inexperienced citizens or those most blinded by demagogy can finally open their eyes. If Rome is reborn, Italy breathes too.