Alfio Marchini

Alfio Marchini practiced various sports at a competitive level, including swimming, skiing and played in Roma 5-a-side football, winning two Italian Cups.

However, his real passion is polo; he played in the Loro Piana Blue team with which he won the major world tournaments including the Queen's cup and the English and Spanish Open.

In December 2012 he officially announced in an interview with Lucia Annunziata his candidacy for mayor of Rome for the 2013 municipal elections.

[3] He then participated in the election of 27 May 2013 with two civic lists, the "Marchini List" and "Let's change with Rome", obtaining 114,169 preferences (9.5% of the vote), finishing fourth after Ignazio Marino (elected mayor for the centre-left coalition), Gianni Alemanno (centre-right) and Marcello De Vito (Five Star Movement).

He renewed his candidacy in 2016, obtaining the support of Forza Italia, Popular Area and the list promoted by Francesco Storace; Marchini scored 141,250 preferences (10.97%), behind Virginia Raggi, Roberto Giachetti and Giorgia Meloni, while his list scored again 7.5% of the vote.