Will Grillo’s party fail in Rome?

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Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks)Rome's mayor Virginia Raggi was facing a crisis of government in September 2016: close confidants in the city council as well as the managers of the rapid transit and waste disposal systems resigned on the 1 September 2016. The new mayor, who was swept into office in June 2016 with the electoral breakthrough of the Movimento Cinque Stelle, had been overwhelmed by the demands put on her by the former protest movement, commentators believed, noting that the party had now lost its allure.

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