Italy | Milan appealed to the court about the decision to name the airport after Silvio Berlusconi

in Italy The Milan city council has appealed against the decision to name the city’s international airport after the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi by.

Tells about it The Guardian and an Italian news agency Trap.

Minister of Transport in Italy’s right-wing government Matteo Salvini announced in July by the messaging service in Xthat Malpensa airport would be named after Berlusconi after the Italian aviation authority Enac had given the project its approval.

According to The Guardian, Salvini had been pushing to rename the airport since Berlusconi died in the summer of 2023.

Now The Milan city council has decided to take the matter to the administrative court of the Lombardy region. Normally in Italy you have to wait ten years after a person’s death before a public place can be named after him, The Guardian says.

Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala claimed, according to The Guardian, that Salvini had made the decision to name the airport without consulting, among other things, SEA, which manages the airport. Sala also claimed that the aviation authority surrendered under pressure from right-wing politicians.

Lombardy leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD). Pierfrancesco Majorino according to the council made an “important decision” to complain about naming the airport after Berlusconi.

“The council, along with the other municipal governments in the region, is not going to follow Salvini and [Italian pääministeri Giorgia] Melon an outrageous and needlessly divisive act desired by the government,” he said, according to The Guardian.

In Italy, according to The Guardian, protests have also been organized in order for the government to cancel its plans to name the airport.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was born and died in Milan. He died at the age of 86 in June 2023.