"The capital is sinking into rubbish, it is now an open-air zoo, the buses burn, the holes look like swimming pools, the plants swallow up the ruins and Raggi, still undecided whether to be in favor or against vaccines (Ni vax), is exalted for ten pedal assisted bicycles”, those bought by the local police that the mayor presented with emphasis worthy of a better cause in her disconcerting electoral campaign for the administrative elections in October. The portrait of Rome and the outgoing mayor that Aldo Grasso, the famous television critic of Corriere della Sera, gave to readers yesterday in his Sunday column "Italian Pavilion" could not have been tastier than this. Column that from the very title sinks the first citizen of the Capital without remission: "Spokes for bicycles, it's sales times".
Faced with the collapse of her administration, modesty should have advised Raggi to apologize to the citizens and to give up running for office again. On the contrary, the outgoing mayor wants to collect other gaffes and miserable tricks and, beyond the one on bicycles, the ambiguity with which he dismissed the vaccination dilemma on TV the other night seemed beyond tolerable. Get vaccinated or not, Green Pass or not? With an unscrupulousness and an unbearable levity, Raggi decided not to displease anyone by sticking to a line that couldn't be more of a circle-bottom than that: "I don't feel like saying if I'm in favor or against (vaccinations and Green Passes), I think these are matters for doctors to decide on." In short, neither yes nor no but Ni Vax. Very questionable position in itself in the face of the persistence of the virus, but literally unsustainable for those with public and institutional offices such as the mayor of a large city.
Faced with these exhilarating performances, Aldo Grasso has a good time closing his column with a fulminating quip: "From the rays of the sun to the rays of the sun", as they say in Rome of a scam and never has a definition really seemed more appropriate.
