Rome municipal election, 1993
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Municipal elections were held in Rome on 21 November 1993 with a second round on 5 December. The center-left candidate Francesco Rutelli (Greens) faced the neo-fascist candidate Gianfranco Fini.
Control of the 19 circoscrizioni of the Italian capital was also to be decided in the elections. 55 councillors were due to be elected in the City Council.
As a result of the election, Fini was defeated by Rutelli on the second round. The center-left controls 36 seats against for the center-right.
With the Law of 25 March 1993, n. 81 was introduced the direct election of mayor and the appointment of members of the giunta by the same, whereas previously the mayor as much as the council were elected by the municipal council. In this way the form of government of the town, previously attributed to the parliamentary model, was approached at the presidential model. The same law had fixed four-year term of office of Mayor, later extended to five (Law no. 267/2000).
The election took place in a period of changes for the Italian politics: the scandal called Tangentopoli, which described pervasive corruption in the Italian political system, exposed in the 1992-6 Mani Pulite investigations, led to the collapse of the hitherto dominant Christian Democracy party and its allies also in the municipal political situation.
For the first time a center-left coalition, composed by the ex-communist Democratic Party of the Left and some other progressives party, presented its candidate: Francesco Rutelli. He was a young politician, who had been a member of the Italian Radicals then a member of the Federation of the Greens.
The main opposition to Rutelli's coalition was represented by the neo-fascist candidate Gianfranco Fini; Fini was a young politician considered the inheritor of Giorgio Almirante's political knowlodge in the Italian Social Movement. Fini and his party were very popular in Rome: their popularity, originated from the Fascist period during the Second World War, was increased by the political scandal which had invested the historical party as Christian Democracy or the Italian Socialist Party. However Fini's popularity continued also after the 1993 election: in fact since then, all the candidates substained by the center-right coalition were members of neo-fascist party National Alliance.
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