2001 Rome municipal election
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Municipal elections were held in Rome on 13 and 27 May 2001 to elect the Mayor of Rome and 60 members of the City Council, as well as the nineteen presidents and more than 400 councillors of the 19 municipi in which the municipality was divided. The first round of the elections occurred on the same date of the national general election.
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The outgoing Mayor Francesco Rutelli, term-limited by the Italian law on local government, had resigned from his position on 8 January that year to run as the main candidate of The Olive Tree in the national general election.
The two main candidates were the former Minister of Cultural Heritage, former Deputy Prime Minister and incumbent secretary of the Democrats of the Left (DS) Walter Veltroni and the liberal-conservative MEP Antonio Tajani, a prominent member of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI).
Since none of the candidates obtained the majority of votes on the first round, a second round vote was held on 27 May 2001. As a result of the election, Veltroni was elected mayor with 52% of votes and sworn in on 1 June 2001.