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Virginia Raggi is an Italian politician born in 1978 who has held major positions in Rome's government. She is notable for being the first female mayor of Rome, serving from 2016 to 2021 as a member of the Five Star Movement party.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Elena
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Occupation
- lawyer
- Educated at
- Università degli Studi Roma Tre
- Employer
- Cesare Previti
- Political party
- Five Star Movement
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Native language
- Italian
- Academic degree
- laurea
- Image
- Virginia Raggi - Festival Economia 2016.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
- Work location
- Rome
- Residence
- Rome
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- date of birth
- 1978-07-18
- Commons category
- Virginia Raggi
- birth name
- Virginia Elena Raggi
- name in native language
- Virginia Raggi
- social media followers
- 521955
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Encyclopedic overview
Virginia Elena Raggi ( Italian pronunciation: [virˈdʒiːnja ˈraddʒi]; born 18 July 1978) is an Italian lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Rome from 2016 to 2021. A member of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S), Raggi was first elected to the Rome city council in 2013. Raggi led her party to victory in the 2016 municipal election, becoming the first woman and first M5S member elected mayor of Rome. Following the M5S' defeat in the 2021 Rome municipal election, Raggi left office as mayor.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virginia Raggi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.