City Council of Milan
City Council of Milan Consiglio Comunale di Milano | |
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Ind. since 21 June 2016 | |
Structure | |
Seats | 48 |
Political groups | Mayoral majority (31)
Opposition (17) |
Length of term | 5 years |
Elections | |
Party-list proportional representation with coalition majority bonus | |
Last election | 3-4 October 2021 |
Next election | 2026 |
Meeting place | |
Palazzo Marino | |
Website | |
Comune di Milano.it |
The City Council of Milan (
The City Council is elected for five-year terms. Its seats are assigned
The City Council meets at Palazzo Marino, located in Piazza della Scala, Municipality 1.
Composition
The political system of the
Under this system, the election of the Mayor is prior over the election of the Council. Voters express a direct choice for the Mayor or an indirect choice voting for the party of the candidate's coalition and this gives a result whereby the winning candidate is able to claim majority support in the new Council. The candidate who is elected Mayor has always a majority of 62% of seats (29 seats) in the City Council, which will support him during his term. The seats for each party of the coalition which wins the majority is determined proportionally.
In this type of system, the Council is generally elected for a five-year term, but, if the Mayor suffers a vote of no confidence, resigns or dies, under the simul stabunt, simul cadent clause introduced in 1993 (literally they will stand together or they will fall together), also the Council is dissolved and a snap election is called.
The Municipal Board (Italian: giunta comunale), the
Functions
The Council acts as the supreme
The Council can decide over programs and public works projects, institution and system of taxes, the general rules for the use of goods and services, forecasting and reporting financial statements. Resolution basic acts attributed by law to its competence are the municipal statute, the regulations, the general criteria on the structure of offices and services.
After the creation of the
City Hall
The City Council is seated at
The palace was built for, and is named after, the Genoan trader and banker Tommaso Marino. It became a property of the State in 1781.
The current Council meeting room was inaugurated on 30 June 1953. A ciceronian inscription from the previous meeting place of the Council – the notorious Sala Alessi on the second floor of the palace – is reported on the marble walls around the room:
- QVAE IN PATRIBVS AGENTVR MODICA SVNTVR · CAVSSAS POPVLI TENETO · VIS ABESTO
- Without personal interests · keep the people in mind · without (using) force
Presidents
This is a list of the presidents (Italian: presidenti del consiglio comunale) of the City Council since the 1993 electoral reform:
Name | Period | Legislature start date | ||
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Maria Letizia Gilardelli (LN) | 20 July 1993 | 12 May 1997 | 21 June 1993 | |
Massimo De Carolis (FI) | 16 June 1997 | 14 May 2001 | 12 May 1997 | |
Vincenzo Giudice (FI) | 24 May 2001 | 1 June 2006 | 14 May 2001 | |
Manfredi Palmeri (FI) | 9 June 2006 | 1 June 2011 | 1 June 2006
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Basilio Rizzo (PRC) | 20 June 2011 | 21 June 2016 | 1 June 2011
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Lamberto Bertolè (PD) | 7 July 2016 | 6 October 2021 | 21 June 2016
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Elena Buscemi (PD) | 21 October 2021 | Incumbent | 6 October 2021 |
Political composition
Historical composition
Election | DC | PCI | PSI | PLI | PRI | PSDI | MSI | Others |
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7 April 1946 | 22 | 20 | 29 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
27 May 1951 | 30 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 2 |
27 May 1956 | 25 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 |
6 November 1960 | 25 | 17 | 17 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 2 |
22 November 1964 | 20 | 18 | 13 | 17 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 1 |
7 June 1970 | 22 | 19 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 |
15 June 1975 | 22 | 25 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 |
8 June 1980 | 22 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 |
12 May 1985 | 20 | 21 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 4 |
6 May 1990 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 23 |
Election | Majority | Opposition | Total | Council | Mayor |
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6 June 1993 | 36 LN | 6 PRC 5 PDS 5 DC 3 PS 1 LR 1 FdV 2 RS 1 MSI |
60 | Marco Formentini | |
27 April 1997 | 25 FI 10 AN 1 CCD |
10 PPI
1 FdV |
60 | Gabriele Albertini | |
13 May 2001 | 25 FI 7 AN 3 LN 1 CCD |
10 1 Others |
60 | ||
28 May 2006 | 27 UDC
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19 1 Others |
60 | Letizia Moratti | |
15 May 2011
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20 PD 4 SEL 2 FdS 2 IdV 1 RI |
13 UDC
1 M5S |
48 | Giuliano Pisapia | |
5 June 2016
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22 PD 5 NM 2 SI |
10 FI 4 LN 3 M5S 1 NCD 1 PRC |
48 | Giuseppe Sala |
Current composition
Election | Majority | Opposition | Total | Council | Mayor |
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3 October 2021 | 20 A 1 MiS |
6 LN 5 FdI 3 FI 2 BS 1 MP |
48 | Giuseppe Sala |
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