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June 14, 2020 "For some days now rumors have chased about my possible candidacy for the top of the Capitoline Municipality, as was already the case when I held the position of Prefect of Rome. While there is still one year to vote, the political sides are working, as it is right that it is, for the identification of possible candidates and public opinion comments, as it is equally right. I thank those who are thinking of me, but I think it is right to say, without any pretense or useless tactics, that the candidacy for Mayor of Rome it is not part of my horizons ".This is what the head of the police, Franco Gabrielli, writes in a letter to the editor of "Il Fatto newspaper", published today in the newspaper.
"For some time now, even without using oblique language, I have been advocating the need to limit the right to passive electorate, that is, the possibility that a state official, with an apical role, will apply in the territory in which he performs his function. I want to bother considerations about the need to restore dignity to politics, subtracting it from the frantic search for a 'foreign Pope' "
" I limit myself to pointing out - continues Gabrielli - how those who hold public offices,
especially highly visible ones, enjoy a position of advantage over to the other contenders, thus "doping" the electoral competition. But the argument I find decisive is the need to reaffirm the third character of the administrative function: a late 'descent on the field' inevitably generates the suspicion that the behavior of that official and his actions have been conditioned by his ideological convictions or by his political ambitions, and this is simply not p can be ".