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Former Milan mayor Marco Formentini, elected in 1993 with the Northern League and remained in office until 1997, died at the age of 90. The news gave her Corriere della Sera. Formentini, born in La Spezia in 1930, had become known in the nineties, when after years in the Socialist Party he joined Umberto Bossi’s Northern League. With the Northern League, Formentini was elected deputy in 1992 and the following year he became mayor of Milan by defeating Nando dalla Chiesa (supported by the center-left) and Piero Bassetti (supported by the Christian Democrats). Formentini became the first mayor of Milan since 1945 not to belong to the Socialist Party and the first directly elected by the citizens (previously mayors were elected by municipalities). In 1997, Formentini had nominated again with the support of the Northern League, but he had not been re-elected, he did not even make it to the polls: that year’s elections were won by Gabriele Albertini, from Forza Italia.
Formentini had then been a member of the European Parliament until 2004 and had changed parties. He had returned to the center-left with the Democrats (and later with the Democratic Party) but from 2009 to 2013 he had been part of Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom.
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