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Rome votes in mayoral election dominated by rubbish and wild boars



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Across the country from the Eternal City to Milan, Naples and Bologna, voters are heading to the polls until Monday evening for municipal elections being closely watchedas a bellwether ahead of 2023 general elections.
But in Rome – one of the world’s filthiest cities, according to a ranking last month by the British magazine Time Out – residents are more concerned with the perennial transport, flooding, waste and pothole woes in this city of 2.8 million inhabitants.
So bad is the rubbish management that wild boars are regularly seen wandering in residential areas, attracted by the pile-up of waste.
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