Rome could start the new Jubilee without having a mayor. After the canceled fines on his red Panda, the injurious funeral of the Casamonicas and controversial trips to the United States, Ignazio Marino is overwhelmed by a wave of receipts. The promise to repay personal expenses made with the Municipality's credit card out of his own pocket was of little use: the mayor of the capital, now considered indefensible, has also lost the support of the Democratic Party.
The escalation of pressure on Marino - invited to resign from all fronts - reached its peak in the morning, to the point that the council meeting, initially scheduled for 11, was postponed twice and should have started at 13. Matteo Renzi let Matteo Orfini, president of the national Democratic Party and commissioner of the Roman Democratic Party, know that he was no longer willing to tolerate Marino's stay on the Capitol. The secretary-premier would have established a clear line: if the mayor does not resign today, the party will dishearten him by withdrawing its councilors from the junta. In the last few hours, the deputy mayor Causi and the three councilors Esposito, Rossi Doria and Di Liegro have already resigned.
What is the possible scenario in the event of the mayor's resignation? The Municipality should return to voting in the spring: in the meantime the Capital will be entrusted to a commissioner, in all likelihood to the prefect of Rome, Franco Gabrielli who has already been supporting the mayor since this summer.
As regards the news of the morning in the Campidoglio, due to the lack of a quorum, the session of the Capitoline Assembly was also postponed to tomorrow in second call, from 10 to 14.
Meanwhile, the Rome Public Prosecutor's Office will soon ask the Capitol for all the documentation relating to the use of the credit card assigned to the mayor Ignazio Marino for the reimbursement of entertainment expenses. The repayment of the twenty thousand euros spent in two years by Marino would in any case have no effect on the assessments of the magistrates regarding the possible crime of embezzlement hypothesized in the complaint presented by the Brothers of Italy, on the basis of which a file has been opened without hypotheses of crime against unknown persons.
