Meanwhile, attention is focused on a number of very practical and local issues: the reopening of the Capannelle racecourse, scheduled for tomorrow; the acceleration of plans for the new stadiums in Rome and Lazio; and the handover of new social housing units at the River Port

Mayor Roberto Gualtieri is offering free cinema screenings in Rome as a way to beat the heat, thereby breaking a taboo 

The former Cinema America manager is opening his cinema free of charge to under-25s, over-65s, pregnant women and people with disabilities. The mayor is following suit with a series of free films every day until early August in around ten cinemas across Rome

The approach to the issue of alliances is one of ‘adelante con juicio’: proceeding step by step, defusing any potential problems, starting with those that are half-resolved (the foundation stone has already been laid for the waste-to-energy plant that the Five Star Movement did not like). And in the Campidoglio area, they ‘take for granted’ the emergence of a left-wing opposition list to Gualtieri, within the Potere al Popolo sphere, but this ‘is not a cause for concern’

Onorato and Alfonsi are in Rome, but Pacini is the most popular figure with his "Milanese revolution". Young Mamdanis are growing up amidst potholes, flowerbeds and bocce courts