Salvini: “We will evaluate the proposal to name Linate airport after Berlusconi”

It seemed like one idea among many launched after the death of Silvio Berlusconi to honor his memory, instead the one advanced by the former mayor of Milan, Gabriele Albertini, to name the Linate airport after the founder of Forza Italia now seems more concrete than the others. “MIT has noted with great interest the proposal to name Linate airport after Silvio Berlusconi, an idea that has gained strength in the last hour”, fknow sources from the ministry led by Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini“make further investigations and also verify the will of the family”.

“If an airport were chosen, Malpensa would be more suitable”, replies the former president of the Lombardy Region, Roberto Formigoni, explaining that “while Linate has existed for a hundred years, the modern Malpensa was made by Berlusconi and I, he as prime minister , I as president of the Region. So it was his airport, as well as mine”. The naming of an airport would then have another advantage: “Unlike a street or a square, there are no rules on how many years must pass after the death, so no derogation would be necessary. A decision by the administration is enough”.

This was the reason that had prompted Gabriele Albertini yesterday to put forward the Linate proposal, after the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala had made it known that he did not intend to ask for an exemption for the Arcore leader from the rule of ten years after his death, for street naming.

Just a few days ago the mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala had explained the impossibility of dedicating a street to Berlusconi because it takes ten years to wait, and no derogation or exception, he underlined, had been made not even for Veronesi “who had saved thousands of people”. The president of the Region, Attilio Fontana, on the other hand, said he was in favor of dedicating “a place in Palazzo Lombardia” to Berlusconi