Members of four opposition parties in the Rome City Council will request the resignation of Mayor Urbano Cioccetti for his refusal to permit the city’s official participation in the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the liberation of Rome from Nazi-fascist rule.
Announcement that the Mayor’s resignation will be sought was made here at a protest meeting against his stand by Councilmen representing the Socialist, Communist, Republican and Radical parties, One of the speakers at the meeting urged the Government to remove Mayor Cioccetti under a law permitting such removal for acts contrary to the Constitution. “
Another of the speakers at the protest meeting recalled the suffering of Rome’s Jews during the Nazi-fascist regime, and accused the Mayor of “betraying the spirit of the solidarity shown the Jewish fellow-citizens” by Christians in Rome. The group conducting the protest meeting invited to the stage a representative of Rome’s Jewish Youth Center and a number of anti-fascist organizations participated in the rally.
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