Streets, gardens and a stadium: she ran to remember Berlusconi

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A street named after the many fathers of the country, artists or writers. Or a stadium, as happened for the one in Naples immediately after Maradona’s death, or finally the bridge over the Strait of Messina. The death of Silvio Berlusconi has already launched a race to remember the former prime minister, with local politicians and committees launching proposals to celebrate the figure of the former knight in symbolic places, starting with his Milan.

To Berlusconi the name of the stadium of Monza or Milan

For the Lombard capital Richard De Coratoformer deputy mayor and deputy, asks the Municipality to name after Berlusconi via Volturno, the place where he was born and lived his youth: “It would be an act of gratitude and gratification towards an illustrious personality”, says the parliamentarian. TO Monza, a motion presented to the city council of the Brianza town by the minority councilors asks to give the stadium the name of the former prime minister (who was also president of the same football team). In the wake of this proposal, the future stadium of the most famous will instead be a candidate Milanwith whom the center-right leader won everything as president of the Rossoneri, is instead the former defender Philip Galli.

Hypothesis dedicates Strait of Messina

The committee’Bridge now‘ and the League in Tuscany instead they aim to name the bridge over the Strait of Messina: the great work, of which the first stone has not yet been laid but which is now a concrete project of the dream of the former prime minister.

The proposal in Puglia: a road in every country

But there are those, like the parent company of Forza Italia in Puglia, who do not stop at just one location and ask that “the naming of a street dedicated to him be promoted in all the cities of the Region, starting from the provincial capitals ».

A street or a square also in Naples

For Berlusconi, who defined himself as a Neapolitan from Milan, two Neapolitan city councilors from his own party also mobilized: “We will bring an agenda to the next city council to name a street or a square after the blue president”, they announce Salvatore Guangivice president of the assembly, e Iris Savastanodelegated by Mayor Manfredi to represent the city at the state funeral in Milan.