Mayor of Milan

Mayor of Milan
Mayor of Milan
Sindaco di Milano
	Incumbent; Giuseppe Sala; since 21 June 2016
Appointer	Electorate of Milan
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Antonio Durini
Formation	8 November 1807
Deputy	Anna Scavuzzo
Salary	€114,741 per year

The Mayor of Milan (Template:Lang-it) is an elected politician who, along with the Milan’s City Council of 48 members, is accountable for the strategic government of Milan in northern Italy. The title is the equivalent of Lord Mayor in the meaning of an actual executive leader.

The current mayor of Milan is Giuseppe Sala, a centre-left wing independent leading a progressive alliance composed by the Democratic Party and Italian Left.

Overview

According to the Italian Constitution, the Mayor of Milan is member of the Milan's City Council. Although the title Mayor is not held by the heads of the nine boroughs of Milan, because they do not actually preside over self-governmental municipalities.

The Mayor is elected by the population of Milan. Citizens elect also the members of the City Council, which also controls Mayor's policy guidelines and is able to enforce his resignation by a motion of no confidence. The Mayor is entitled to appoint and release the members of his government.

Since 1993 the Mayor is elected directly by Milan's electorate: in all mayoral elections in Italy in cities with a population higher than 15,000 the voters express a direct choice for the mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition. If no candidate receives at least 50% of votes, the top two candidates go to a second round after two weeks. The election of the City Council is based on a direct choice for the candidate with a preference vote: the candidate with the majority of the preferences is elected. The number of the seats for each party is determined proportionally.

The seat of the Mayor and of the City Council is the city hall Palazzo Marino, in Piazza della Scala.

List

Rectors

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Appointer
1	Antonio Durini	30 November 1807	22 October 1814	Napoleon I of France
2	Cesare Giulini Della Porta	22 October 1814	2 January 1820	Francis I of Austria
3	Carlo Villa	2 January 1820	7 August 1827
(1)	Antonio Durini	7 August 1827	2 January 1837
4	Gabrio Casati	2 January 1837	3 August 1848	Ferdinand I of Austria
5	Franz Graf von Wimpffen	3 August 1848	6 January 1849	Franz Joseph I of Austria
6	Antonio Pestalozza	6 January 1849	27 November 1856
7	Giuseppe Sebregondi	27 November 1856	10 June 1859
8	Luigi Barbiano di Belgioioso	10 June 1859	26 January 1860	Victor Emmanuel II of Italy

Mayors

Kingdom of Italy (1860-1946)

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"\|1	Antonio Beretta	26 January 1860	13 February 1867	Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"\|2	Giulio Belinzaghi	13 February 1867	25 April 1884	Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"\|3	Gaetano Negri	25 April 1884	21 November 1889	Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"\|(2)	Giulio Belinzaghi	21 November 1889	28 September 1892	Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"\|4	Giuseppe Vigoni	28 September 1892	18 September 1899	Right
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color; color:black"\|5	Giuseppe Mussi	18 September 1899	16 September 1903	Left
style="background:Template:Historical Left/meta/color; color:black"\|6	Giambattista Barinetti	16 September 1903	7 February 1905	Left
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"\|7	Ettore Ponti	7 February 1905	11 May 1909	Right
style="background:Template:Historical Right/meta/color; color:white"\|8	Bassano Gabba	11 May 1909	30 January 1911	Right
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"\|9	Emanuele Greppi	30 January 1911	30 June 1914	Liberal
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|10	Emilio Caldara	30 June 1914	20 November 1920	Socialist
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|11	Angelo Filippetti	20 November 1920	30 December 1922	Socialist
style="background:Template:Liberals (Italy)/meta/color; color:white"\|12	Luigi Mangiagalli	30 December 1922	19 August 1926	Liberal
Fascist Podestà (1926-1945)
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|1	Ernesto Belloni	19 August 1926	6 September 1928	PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|2	Giuseppe De Capitani d'Arzago	6 September 1928	20 November 1929	PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|3	Marcello Visconti di Modrone	20 November 1929	19 November 1935	PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|4	Guido Pesenti	19 November 1935	13 June 1938	PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|5	Gian Giacomo Gallarati Scotti	13 June 1938	14 August 1943	PNF
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|6	Piero Parini	14 October 1943	4 May 1944	PFR
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|7	Guido Andreoni	4 May 1944	13 September 1944	PFR
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|8	Giuseppe Spinelli	13 September 1944	23 January 1945	PFR
rowspan=1 style="background:Template:National Fascist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|9	Mario Colombo	23 January 1945	25 April 1945	PFR
Liberation (1945-1946)
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|13	Antonio Greppi	25 April 1945	7 April 1946	Socialist

Republic of Italy (1946-present)

From 1946 to 1993, the Mayor of Milan was chosen by the City Council.

	Mayor	Term start	Term end	Party	Coalition
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|1	Antonio Greppi	7 April 1946	25 June 1951	PSI	PSI - PCI - DC
style="background:Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color; color:black"\|2	Virgilio Ferrari	25 June 1951	21 January 1961	PSDI	DC - PSDI
style="background:Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color; color:black"\|3	Gino Cassinis	21 January 1961	17 February 1964	PSDI	DC - PSDI - PSI
style="background:Template:Italian Democratic Socialist Party/meta/color; color:black"\|4	Pietro Bucalossi	17 February 1964	13 December 1967	PSDI	DC - PSDI - PSI
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|5	Aldo Aniasi	13 December 1967	12 May 1976	PSI	DC - PSDI - PSI (1967–75) PCI - PSI (1975–76)
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|6	Carlo Tognoli	12 May 1976	21 December 1986	PSI	PCI - PSI (1976–77) PCI - PSI - PSDI (1977–85) DC - PSI - PRI (1985–86)
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|7	Paolo Pillitteri	21 December 1986	18 January 1992	PSI	DC - PSI - PRI (1986–87) PCI - PSI - FdV - PSDI (1987–90) PCI - PSI - PRI - FdV - PSDI (1990–92)
style="background:Template:Italian Socialist Party/meta/color; color:white"\|8	Giampiero Borghini	18 January 1992	11 March 1993	PSI	DC - PSI - PSDI - PLI
-	Claudio Gelati	11 March 1993	21 June 1993	-	Special prefectural commissioner^[a]

Notes

^ Nominated by the Prefect after the Mayor and the members of the City Council resigned in order to hold a new election under the provision of the new local electoral law.

Since 1993, under provisions of new local administration law, the Mayor of Milan is chosen by direct election, originally every four, and since 2001 every five years.

		Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition		Election
rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Lega Nord/meta/color; color:white"\|9	Marco Formentini (b. 1930)	21 June 1993	12 May 1997	LN	style="background: Template:Lega Nord/meta/color;" \|	LN 21 June 1993 – 12 May 1997	1993
rowspan="2" style="background: Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color; color:white"\|10	Gabriele Albertini (b. 1950)	12 May 1997	1 June 2006	FI	style="background: Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color;" \|	FI • AN • CCD 12 May 1997 – 14 May 2001	1997
style="background: Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color;" \|	Gabriele Albertini (b. 1950)	12 May 1997	1 June 2006	FI	FI • AN • LN • UDC 14 May 2001 – 1 June 2006	2001
rowspan="1" style="background: Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color; color:white"\|11	Letizia Moratti (b. 1949)	1 June 2006	1 June 2011	FI	style="background: Template:The People of Freedom/meta/color;" \|	FI • AN • LN • UDC 1 June 2006 – 1 June 2011	2006
rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Left Ecology Freedom/meta/color;" \| 12	Giuliano Pisapia (b. 1949)	1 June 2011	21 June 2016	SEL	style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	PD • SEL • FdS 1 June 2011 – 21 June 2016	2011
rowspan="1" style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \| 13	Giuseppe Sala (b. 1958)	21 June 2016	incumbent	PD	style="background: Template:Democratic Party (Italy)/meta/color;" \|	PD • SI since 21 June 2016	2016

Timeline

By time in office

Rank	Mayor	Political Party	Total time in office	Terms
1	Carlo Tognoli	PSI	10 years, 223 days	2
2	Virgilio Ferrari	PSDI	9 years, 210 days	2
3	Gabriele Albertini	FI	9 years, 20 days	2
4	Aldo Aniasi	PSI	8 years, 151 days	2
5	Antonio Greppi	PSI	5 years, 79 days	1
6	Paolo Pillitteri	PSI	5 years, 28 days	2
7	Giuliano Pisapia	SEL	5 years, 20 days	1
8	Letizia Moratti	FI	5 years, 0 days	1
9	Giuseppe Sala	PD	8 years, 150 days	1
10	Marco Formentini	LN	3 years, 325 days	1
11	Pietro Bucalossi	PSDI	3 years, 299 days	1
12	Gino Cassinis	PSDI	3 years, 27 days	1
13	Giampiero Borghini	PSI	1 year, 52 days	1

Elections

External links

Official website (in English)

[1] Nominated by the Prefect after the Mayor and the members of the City Council resigned in order to hold a new election under the provision of the new local electoral law.

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