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Is dead Marco Formentini, the only mayor of the Northern League of Milan (since 1993 to 1997) then MEP of the party Via Bellerio. This is what the Northern League sources confirm. Formentini was ninety years old. “This painful news reaches me, Marco Formentini passed away, I have a special memory, in 1993 we were elected together with him in Milan and I in Mantua. Good times, heroic and epic times,” writes the former president of the Lombard regional council. , Davide boni, on Facebook.
In fact, the 1993 feat has changed the history of the League, in the wake of Clean hands me Tangentopoli the party of Umberto Bossi He went up to Palazzo Marino after long years of government socialist. The taking of Milan was also the start of what would happen a few months later, with the victory of the new center-right led by Silvio Berlusconi, driving Go Italy and ally of the League and National alliance. Formentini, in fact, gave a decisive impulse to the First Republic. The season of the first center-right government was short, both in Rome and in Milan. In 1997 the Northern League ran alone and Formentini did not even make it to the polls, replaced by Gabriele albertini expression of Forza Italia (against Aldo Fumagalli del Olivo). In 1999, after moving permanently to Strasbourg (he had already been a member of the European Parliament since 1994), Formentini left the League group and later joined the European Democrats.
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