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He was the first mayor of Milan directly elected by the citizens with the double shift system.
He was the first mayor of Milan directly elected by the citizens with the double shift system.
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Marco Formentini, mayor of Milan from 1993 to 1997, passed away at the age of 90, the first to be elected by the citizens with the double round system, as well as the first and only mayor of the Northern League of the Lombard capital. And in Milan, on Monday, January 4, on the occasion of the funeral, the mourning of the city was proclaimed. Civic flags will be displayed at half-mast in all municipal offices.
Partisan viewpoint in the province of La Spezia at just 14 years old, Formentini was in 1993 the candidate of Umberto Bossi’s party in the municipal elections to the leadership of Palazzo Marino, in which he defeated the favorite Nando Dalla Chiesa, candidate of the center-left in the second round. . Exponent in the eighties of the Italian Socialist Party (close to the mayor of the time Carlo Tognoli, but far from Bettino Craxi), Formentini approached the Northern League in the early eighties, when he was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1992 , and then run as a candidate. and conquer the position of mayor of the Lombard capital.
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At the end of his term, the League decided to run alone to the municipal elections and Formentini could not reach the polls, in which Aldo Fumagalli for the center left and Gabriele Albertini, who became mayor of Milan, for the center right. Formentini progressively moved away from the formation led by Umberto Bossi (whose civil wedding he celebrated), to leave definitively after reelection to the European Parliament in 1999, to later join the group of Democrats and then the Group of the European Liberal Party. , Democrats and reformers. In November 2008 he approached the center right and in particular the Christian Democracy for the Autonomies of Gianfranco Rotondi.
Sala, a politician that Milan is proud of
“Marco Formentini was a politician that Milan can be proud of.” With these words, the mayor of Milan, Giuseppe Sala, recalled Formentini on his social pages. “Above all, after one of the most critical moments in the history of post-war Milan, he knew how to make himself appreciated for those human qualities that a mayor must never forget to exercise with his citizens. Thanks Marco. We will not forget you ”, added Sala, who then reviewed the political history of Formentini and the main legacies left by his administration to the city of Milan.
“Partisan, with a socialist heart, secretary of the council of Piero Bassetti’s Lombardy Region, joins the League in a process of continuous search for new political solutions for our country. In 1993 he became the first mayor of Milan directly elected by the Milanese citizens. His council experimented with a selection of figures mostly independent from the party lineup, ”he explained. He had a difficult navigation, asked and obtained the support of the left to conclude his mandate. As a European parliamentarian, he joined Margherita, in Europe “The Democrats”, taking his experience and his vision also to the center-left. He bequeathed the pedestrianization of the Duomo to San Babila, line 3 of the metro and the first project of line 4 “.
