Mayor of Milan

The mayor of Milan (Italian: sindaco di Milano; Lombard: Sindech de Milan) is the first citizen and head of the municipal government of the city of Milan, Lombardy, Italy.

Mayor of Milan
Sindaco di Milano Sindech de Milan
Incumbent Giuseppe Sala since 21 June 2016
Seat	Palazzo Marino
Appointer	Electorate of Milan
Term length	5 years, renewable once
Inaugural holder	Antonio Durini
Formation	8 November 1807
Deputy	Anna Scavuzzo
Salary	€7,800 monthly

The current office holder is Giuseppe Sala,^[1] a centre-left independent who has been in charge since 2016 leading a progressive alliance composed by the Democratic Party, Green Europe and some civic lists. The last election took place in 2021.

Overview

Milan's City Hall, Palazzo Marino

According to the Italian Constitution, the mayor of Milan is a member of the Milan's City Council. The mayor and the other 48 city councillors (consiglieri comunali) are elected by the Italian and EU citizens residing in Milan. Concurrently, albeit with a different ballot paper, nine presidents and 270 councillors are chosen for the nine assemblies of the nine municipalities, often referred to as zones, in which the city is divided, each one having one president and 30 councillors. All the offices are elected for five-year terms.

After the election, the mayor can appoint one vice mayor (currently Anna Scavuzzo) and up to 16 assessors;^[2] together they form the municipal government (giunta comunale) and they implement the municipal policies, which are determined and controlled by the City Council. The City Council has also the power to dismiss the mayor or any of the assessors with a motion of no confidence. Similar procedures take place at the municipality level, where the mayor is called the president of the municipality (presidente del municipio) and there are three assessors.

Since 1993, Italian mayors of municipalities of more than 15,000 inhabitants have been directly elected by their respective electorates. Voters can express their choice for the mayor and for a list of municipal councillors not necessarily supporting the same mayor-candidate (voto disgiunto). If no mayor-candidate receives a majority of votes, a run-off election is held two weeks later among the top two candidates. In the list choice, each voter can express one or two preferences for councillor candidates; in the case of two preferences, their gender must be different. The party and civic lists supporting the elected mayor are granted a majority of the City Council seats, divided proportionally to each list result, by means of a majority bonus; the remaining seats are then assigned proportionally to the opposition lists.

The official seat of the mayor and of the City Council is Milan's City Hall, Palazzo Marino, in Piazza della Scala (Municipality 1). Each municipality has its own official seat as well, within its respective territory.

List

Rectors

	Rector		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
1		Antonio Beretta (1808–1891)	26 January 1860	13 February 1867	Right
2		Giulio Belinzaghi (1818–1892)	13 February 1867	25 April 1884	Right
3		Gaetano Negri (1838–1902)	25 April 1884	21 November 1889	Right
(2)		Giulio Belinzaghi (1818–1892)	21 November 1889	28 September 1892	Right
4		Giuseppe Vigoni (1846–1914)	28 September 1892	18 September 1899	Right
5		Giuseppe Mussi (1836–1904)	18 September 1899	16 September 1903	Left
6		Giovanni Battista Barinetti (1849–1942)	16 September 1903	7 February 1905	Left
7		Ettore Ponti (1855–1919)	7 February 1905	11 May 1909	Right
8		Bassano Gabba (1844–1928)	11 May 1909	30 January 1911	Right
9		Emanuele Greppi (1853–1931)	30 January 1911	30 June 1914	Liberal
10		Emilio Caldara (1868–1942)	30 June 1914	20 November 1920	Socialist
11		Angelo Filippetti (1866–1936)	20 November 1920	30 December 1922	Socialist
12		Luigi Mangiagalli (1850–1928)	30 December 1922	19 August 1926	Liberal
Fascist Podestà (1926–1945)
1		Ernesto Belloni (1883–1938)	19 August 1926	6 September 1928	PNF
2		Giuseppe De Capitani D'Arzago (1870–1945)	6 September 1928	20 November 1929	PNF
3		Marcello Visconti di Modrone (1898–1964)	20 November 1929	19 November 1935	PNF
4		Guido Pesenti (1884–1962)	19 November 1935	13 June 1938	PNF
5		Gian Giacomo Gallarati Scotti (1886–1983)	13 June 1938	14 August 1943	PNF
6		Piero Parini (1894–1993)	14 October 1943	4 May 1944	PFR
7		Guido Andreoni	4 May 1944	13 September 1944	PFR
8		Giuseppe Spinelli (1908–1987)	13 September 1944	23 January 1945	PFR
9		Mario Colombo	23 January 1945	25 April 1945	PFR
Liberation (1945-1946)
13		Antonio Greppi (1894–1982)	25 April 1945	7 April 1946	Socialist

Italian Republic (1946–present)

City Council election (1946–1993)

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

	Mayor		Term start	Term end	Party	Coalition	Election
1		Antonio Greppi (1894–1982)	7 April 1946	28 March 1949	PSI	PSI  • PCI  • DC	1946
			28 March 1949	25 June 1951		PSI  • PRI  • PSLI
2		Virgilio Ferrari (1888–1975)	25 June 1951	10 September 1956	PSDI	DC  • PSDI  • PRI  • PLI	1951
			10 September 1956	21 January 1961		DC  • PSDI	1956
3		Gino Cassinis (1885–1964)	21 January 1961	13 January 1964[a]	PSDI	DC  • PSDI  • PSI	1960
4		Pietro Bucalossi (1905–1992)	17 February 1964	22 January 1965	PSDI
			22 January 1965	13 December 1967			1964
5		Aldo Aniasi (1921–2005)	13 December 1967	30 July 1970	PSI
			30 July 1970	31 July 1975		DC  • PSI  • PSDI  • PRI	1970
			31 July 1975	12 May 1976		PCI  • PSI	1975
6		Carlo Tognoli (1938–2021)	12 May 1976	7 February 1977	PSI
			7 February 1977	31 July 1980		PCI  • PSI  • PSDI
			31 July 1980	5 August 1985			1980
			5 August 1985	21 December 1986		DC  • PSI  • PRI  • PSDI  • PLI	1985
7		Paolo Pillitteri (1940–2024)	21 December 1986	8 January 1988	PSI
			8 January 1988	3 August 1990		PCI  • PSI  • PSDI  • FLV
			3 August 1990	18 January 1992		PCI  • PSI  • PRI  • FdV	1990
8		Giampiero Borghini (b. 1943)	18 January 1992	11 March 1993	PSI	DC  • PSI  • PSDI  • PLI
-		Claudio Gelati	11 March 1993	21 June 1993	—	Special prefectural commissioner[b]

Notes

1. Died in office
2. 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

Direct election (since 1993)

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.

	Mayor of Milan		Took office	Left office	Party	Coalition		Election
9		Marco Formentini (1930–2021)	21 June 1993	12 May 1997	LN		LN	1993
10		Gabriele Albertini (b. 1950)	12 May 1997	14 May 2001	FI		Pole for Freedoms (FI-AN-CCD)	1997
			14 May 2001	1 June 2006			House of Freedoms (FI-AN-LN-UDC)	2001
11		Letizia Moratti (b. 1949)	1 June 2006	1 June 2011	FI		House of Freedoms (FI-AN-LN-UDC)	2006
12		Giuliano Pisapia (b. 1949)	1 June 2011	21 June 2016	Ind[a]		PD  • SEL  • FdS  • RI	2011
13		Giuseppe Sala (b. 1958)	21 June 2016	6 October 2021	Ind[b]		PD  • SI	2016
			6 October 2021[c]	In office			PD  • EV  • IV  • A	2021

Notes

1. Close to Left Ecology Freedom (SEL)
2. Close to Democratic Party (PD), he joined the European Green Party (EGP) on 12 March 2021.
3. Election originally scheduled for June 2021 and then postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.

Timeline

By time in office

Rank	Mayor	Political Party	Total time in office	Terms
1	Carlo Tognoli	PSI	10 years, 223 days	3
2	Virgilio Ferrari	PSDI	9 years, 210 days	2
3	Giuseppe Sala	Ind	9 years, 52 days	2
4	Gabriele Albertini	FI	9 years, 20 days	2
5	Aldo Aniasi	PSI	8 years, 151 days	3
6	Antonio Greppi	PSI	5 years, 79 days	1
7	Paolo Pillitteri	PSI	5 years, 28 days	2
8	Giuliano Pisapia	Ind	5 years, 20 days	1
9	Letizia Moratti	FI	5 years, 0 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

Main article: Elections in Milan

Deputy Mayor

The office of the Deputy Mayor of Milan was officially created in 1993 with the adoption of the new local administration law. The Deputy Mayor is nominated and eventually dismissed by the Mayor.

	Deputy	Term start	Term end	Party	Mayor
1	Giorgio Malagoli	24 June 1993	12 May 1997	LN	Formentini
2	Riccardo De Corato	21 May 1997	14 May 2001	AN	Albertini
		21 May 2001	1 June 2006
		20 June 2006	1 June 2011		Moratti
3	Maria Grazia Guida	10 June 2011	21 January 2013[a]	PD	Pisapia
3	Ada Lucia De Cesaris	28 January 2013	15 July 2015[b]	PD
4	Francesca Balzani	17 July 2015	21 June 2016	PD
5	Anna Scavuzzo	29 June 2016	6 October 2021	PD	Sala
		13 October 2021	Incumbent

Notes

1. Resigned.
2. Resigned.

See also

• List of rulers of Milan
• Timeline of Milan