I would love to be balanced and impartial in this review of women candidates in the upcoming Rome's local elections, but frankly the right-of-the-centre parties are hopeless: not only they put forward very few ladies in comparison with the left, but they are also so web-unwise that it is extremely difficult to google their pictures, as it is the case with the Christian-Democrats (UDC). None of them found. Makes you suspect that they are so ugly they keep them concealed...

Back to the left, here's what I found in the far-left coalition Sinistra arcobaleno (Rainbow Left, which includes the Green Party). Above is 59-y-o full-time politician Gemma Azuni, while this pretty one (not bad at all) is middle-age historian Ilaria Bonaccorsi, 37, and the following one is teacher and writer Tiziana Colusso, a 47-y-o practicing Buddhist with a penchant for neck-ties. I thought she deserved two pics as in the second one she turns out to be another Veltroni lookalike (see Carli in a previous post)















This one above - I bet that somehow you've already guessed by now - is Valeria Di Blasio, architect, 31. Here on the left, Daniela Pace, newsagent, 56 (this is what in Italy they call santini elettorali, i.e. business-card-sized propaganda flooding your post box), while the following rubber-lipped other "pace" is Arianna Petricone, just 20.








Now we all anxiously await for the opinion on these beauties by our sexpert commentator, desperate Andrea Turko, the man with a bone in his penis.