Well, they have a mayor outside of the system that's draining the swamp for the last few years...you get what you vote for.
It turns out that real or perceived morality without any semblance of skill is not enough to handle a city, even more so a large city like Rome.
In fact in their cluelesness and will to always point elsewhere for the source of the problems, they're the same as those who preceded them, just worse.