Eventually he gave up. After one of the longest political days that the Capital can remember, the mayor of Rome has resigned that everyone has been asking of him since this morning. Ignazio Marino is no longer the Mayor of Rome. The official announcement only came at 19.30 tonight when it now seemed that the only way to make him leave the seat he occupied on the Capitoline Hill was distrust on the part of the councilors of the Democratic Party and the opposition.
In the end, however, the now ex-Mayor realized the political isolation he had plunged into and left: "In these two years I have set epochal changes, I have changed a system of government based on acquiescence in lobbies, even criminal powers. I didn't know (no one knew) how serious the situation was, how far the political-mafia mix had reached. This is the challenge won” Marino wrote in an open letter to the Romans.
“All my efforts have elicited a furious reaction. From the beginning - Marino continued - there has been a noisy activity in an attempt to subvert the democratic vote of the Romans. This has had inattentive spectators even among those who should have supported this experience. Today this aggression reaches its climax. The political conditions today appear to me thinned if not absent. This is why I made my choice: I present my resignation". A decision which, however, based on his words, may not be definitive: "However, the resignation can be withdrawn within twenty days", concluded the former Mayor.
The pressure on Marino was too strong for a different conclusion to be reached: first the distrust on the part of the Democratic Party (from the secretary Renzi to the president Orfini), then the protests of the opposition and the resignation of three councilors, Stefano Esposito, Marco Causes and Luigina Di Liegro.
Now Rome no longer has a mayor, even if according to the law, it will take 20 days for the resignation to become definitive. At this juncture, the Giunta, the Council and the Mayor himself will retain powers of ordinary administration. At the end of the established term, a decree of the President of the Republic, on proposal of the Minister of the Interior, will dissolve the Municipal Council and the Capital will be governed by a Commissioner appointed by the Prefect until the next elections which will have to coincide with the first electoral round foreseen by the law. Which means that, in all likelihood next spring, Roman citizens will have to elect a new mayor.
