Gualtieri brings together his coalition, which he hopes will “expand” to include the M5S and Azione

The first meeting of the coalition that will support Mayor Roberto Gualtieri’s re-election bid in the forthcoming local elections was held today at the Campidoglio. Present at the table were the Rome-based leaders of the PD, Sinistra Civica Ecologista, Demos, Italia Viva, AVS, PSI and Progetto Civico. “The meeting,” sources at Palazzo Senatorio report, “took place in a positive and constructive atmosphere and marked the launch and first meeting of the political roundtable, attended by the parties currently supporting the majority in the Campidoglio, who will reconvene on 7 November at the Auditorium della Conciliazione.” This is the event at which the mayor will mark his five years in office and which will officially kick off the election campaign. The hope for that day is that the majority will be definitively expanded to include Azione and, above all, the M5S led by the rebellious Virginia Raggi. City Hall puts it this way: "In parallel with the first meeting with the parties that already support the mayor, discussions are underway with other political and civic groups with a view to broadening the scope of the majority."