The City Council of Milan ( it, Consiglio Comunale di Milano) is the top tier

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of the municipality of Milan,

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Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

. It consists of the directly elected

mayor of Milan The mayor of Milan ( it, sindaco di Milano) is the first citizen and head of the municipal government of the city of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. The current office holder is Giuseppe Sala, a centre-left independent who has been in charge since 2016 ...

and of an elected 48-member assembly, which controls the mayor's governing actions and has the authority to enforce his resignation by a

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. The City Council is elected for five-year terms. Its seats are assigned proportionally to each party and list, with a majority bonus being awarded to the winning coalition to guarantee governability. The last election was held on 3-4 October 2021. The City Council meets at Palazzo Marino, located in Piazza della Scala, Municipality 1.

Composition

The political system of the Comuni of Italy was changed in 1993, when a

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for the mayoral election was introduced. Previously, the Council was elected under a pure

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and the Council had the power to elect and dismiss the

Mayor of Milan The mayor of Milan ( it, sindaco di Milano) is the first citizen and head of the municipal government of the city of Milan, Lombardy, Italy. The current office holder is Giuseppe Sala, a centre-left independent who has been in charge since 2016 ...

; since 1993 the Mayor and the Council are jointly elected by citizens, with an electoral law that assures to the elected Mayor a political majority in the Council. 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 executive body of the city, chosen and presided directly by the mayor, is generally composed by members of the City Council, but also by external members.

Functions

The Council acts as the supreme

of the city. It is convened and chaired by a speaker (''president del consiglio comunale'') appointed by the Council itself. 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

Metropolitan City of Milan The Metropolitan City of Milan ( it, città metropolitana di Milano; lmo, label= Milanese, cittaa metropolitana de Milan ) is a metropolitan city (not to be confused with the metropolitan area) in the Lombardy region, Italy. It is the second m ...

in 2015, which with its Metropolitan Council has the power to coordinate the municipalities around Milan in providing basic services (including transport, school and social programs) and environment protection as the old

Province of Milan The Province of Milan ( it, Provincia di Milano) was a province in the Lombardy region, Italy. Its capital was the city of Milan. The area of the former province is highly urbanized, with more than 2,000 inhabitants/km2, the third highest popu ...

did, the 2016 municipal administrative reform delegated to the 9 administrative Boroughs Councils of Milan some advisory functions related to local services, such as schools, social services, waste collection, roads, parks, libraries and local commerce.

City Hall

The City Council is seated at Palazzo Marino, a 16th-century palace located in Piazza della Scala, in the centre of

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, Italy. Palazzo Marino has been Milan's

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since 9 September 1861. It borders on

Piazza San Fedele Piazza San Fedele (''Saint Fedele Square'' in English) is sited in Milan near Palazzo Marino (Milan's Municipal office), the Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery and Piazza della Scala in a pedestrian area in the centre of the city. The square is sited ...

, Piazza della Scala, Via Case RotteIn the courtyard of a house in Via Case Rotte there is a plaque mentioning the palace and its founder Tommaso Marino; se

/ref> and Via Tommaso Marino. The palace was built for, and is named after, the Republic of Genoa, 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

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nian 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: : :''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:

Political composition

Historical composition

Current composition

, - style="background-color:#E9E9E9;text-align:center;" ! colspan="4" rowspan="1" style="text-align:left;" , Parties and coalitions ! colspan="1" , Votes ! colspan="1" , % ! colspan="1" , Seats , - , style="background-color:pink" rowspan="8" , , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Democratic Party (''Partito Democratico'') , PD , 152,200 , , 33.86 , , 20 , - , style="background-color:#E1354C" , , style="text-align:left;" , Sala for Mayor (''Sala Sindaco'') , SS , 41,135 , , 9.15 , , 5 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Green Europe Green Europe ( it, Europa Verde, EV), officially Green Europe – Greens (''Europa Verde – Verdi''), is a green political party in Italy. Its leaders are Angelo Bonelli, long-time leader of the former Federation of the Greens, and Eleonora Evi, ...

(''Europa Verde'') , EV , 22,994 , , 5.11 , , 3 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , The Reformers (''I Riformisti'') , IV- A , 18,049 , , 4.01 , , 2 , - , style="background-color:#802152" , , style="text-align:left;" , Healthy Milan (''Milano in Salute'') , MiS , 7,367 , , 1.64 , , 1 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , United Milan (''Milano Unita'') , MU , 7,012 , , 1.56 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Radical Milan (''Milano Radicale'') , MR , 4,816 , , 1.07 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Volt Europa Volt Europa (frequently abbreviated as Volt) is a pro-European and European federalist political movement that also serves as the pan-European structure for subsidiary parties in several EU member states. Volt candidates stood on a common, pan- ...

, V , 2,052 , , 0.56 , , 0 , - style="background-color:pink" , style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" , Sala coalition (

Centre-left Centre-left politics lean to the left on the left–right political spectrum but are closer to the centre than other left-wing politics. Those on the centre-left believe in working within the established systems to improve social justice. The ...

) , 256,075 , , 56.96 , , 31 , - , style="background-color:lightblue" rowspan="6" , , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Lega , L , 48,283 , , 10.74 , , 6 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Brothers of Italy Brothers of Italy ( it, Fratelli d'Italia, FdI) is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy. It is led by Giorgia Meloni, the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy and the first woman to serve in the position. Accor ...

(''Fratelli d'Italia'') , FdI , 43,889 , , 9.76 , , 5 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" ,

Forza Italia Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...

, FI , 31,819 , , 7.08 , , 3 , - , style="background-color:#074A94", , style="text-align:left;" , Bernardo for Mayor (''Bernardo Sindaco'') , BS , 14,055 , , 3.13 , , 2 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" , Popular Milan (''Milano Popolare'') , MP , 8,367 , , 1.86 , , 1 , - , style="background-color:#0000AC" , , style="text-align:left;" , European Liberal Party , PLE , 970 , , 0.22 , , 0 , - style="background-color:lightblue" , colspan="4" style="text-align:left;" , Bernardo coalition (

Centre-right Centre-right politics lean to the right of the political spectrum, but are closer to the centre. From the 1780s to the 1880s, there was a shift in the Western world of social class structure and the economy, moving away from the nobility and ...

) , 147,383 , , 32.78 , , 17 , - , style="background-color:#366A9F" , , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Paragone for Mayor–

Great North Great North (''Grande Nord'', GN) is a liberal, regionalist, federalist and somewhat separatist political party, based in Northern Italy. The party proposes federalism and liberal economics, aimed at reducing "the size of the state in order to ...

, , 12,974 , , 2.89 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" ,

Five Star Movement The Five Star Movement ( it, Movimento 5 Stelle , M5S) is a political party in Italy. Its leader and president is Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister of Italy from 2018 until 2021. The M5S was founded on 4 October 2009 by Beppe Grillo, a comedian an ...

(''Movimento Cinque Stelle'') , M5S , 12,517 , , 2.78 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Milan in Common (''Milano in Comune'') , MC , 7,175 , , 1.60 , , 0 , - , style="background-color:" , , style="text-align:left;" colspan="2" , Others , , 12,989 , , 2.99 , , 0 , - , colspan="7" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , , - style="font-weight:bold;" , style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" , Total , 449,563 , , 100.00 , , 48 , - , colspan="7" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" , Votes cast / turnout , 491,141 , , 47.72 , , style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="4" , Eligible voters , 1,029,232 , , , , style="background-color:#E9E9E9;" , , - , colspan="7" style="background-color:#E9E9E9" , , - , style="text-align:left;" colspan="7" , Source
Ministry of the Interior

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{{Authority control Government of Milan City councils in Italy