The race to name streets, squares, stadiums up to the Strait of Messina after Berlusconi – Corriere.it

A street, or a square, or a stadium, or directly the bridge over the Strait of Messina. He’s going crazy proposing the dedication in memory of Silvio Berlusconi of some place or public or private work. And it seems of little use to remember that at the municipal level the rules of toponymy provide that they must pass at least ten years after his death of a person before dedicating anything to him.

In Segrate, where Berlusconi built Milano 2 and launched the first TV networks, the center-left mayor (Mediaset employee on leave) Paolo Micheli asked to find a suitable place: . A little further on, in central Milan, Giampaolo Berni Ferretti, president of the Forza Italia regional council of local authorities, launched the idea of ​​dedicating to the former premier The gardens of Guastalla, in front of the central temple of the Milanese Jewish community, precisely to underline Berlusconi’s closeness to the people of Israel. While Riccardo De Corato, former deputy mayor and now FdI deputy, pushes to change the name of via Volturno, where Berlusconi lived as a young man: . Proposal shared by Attilio Fontana, Northern League president of the Lombardy Region, who however as an alternative aims to name the former premier the belvedere of Palazzo Lombardia.

Still in Milan, for the former AC Milan player, Filippo Galli, the most suitable choice would be to dedicate instead to Berlusconi the name of the new alternate stadium at San Siro, which has been talked about for years, to be built perhaps in San Donato Milanese. At the stadium they also think about Monza, where in recent times Berlusconi had thrown himself back into the world of football by taking over the local team. Here, instead of Brianteo, the municipal councilor Martina Sassoli, ex FI, proposed the name of the ex Cavaliere.

Then there is the rest of Italy. In Naples, where the provincial councilor Salvatore Guanci and the blue coordinator Iris Savastano have identified Chiaia or Posillipo, or a district in the center, the ideal places to name a square. Also to Sesto Calende (Varese) on Lake Maggiore, the mayor Giovanni Buzzi of Forza Italia would like to rename a square in honor of Berlusconi. One way of Terni look instead at Francesco Maria Ferranti former president of the city council and councilor with the most votes with Forza Italia in the 2023 elections. Ventimiglia (Imperia) the former mayor of FI and current councilor in a civic list Gaetano Scullino, as an alternative to a street, also proposes a square. As it happens to Aversa (Caserta), where the Azzurri exponents Isidoro Orabona and Mario Gaggiano have already formalized the proposal in the council. AND in Rietiwhere the director of FdI Marco di Andrea wanted to underline the reasons: <Why Berlusconi has employed thousands of Italian workers, including many of our fellow citizens>. Up to Roscigno (Salerno), where the civic mayor Pino Palmieri has already put forward the idea of ​​offering the former prime minister .

However, the most curious initiatives have been advanced in Puglia and Sicily. For Paride Mazzotta, group leader of Forza Italia in the regional council in Puglia, it would be to name Berlusconi , starting with the provincial capitals. In Messina, on the other hand, the Bridge Committee immediately launched the idea of ​​renaming the hypothesized Bridge over the Strait between Messina and Reggio Calabria: . A proposal that, independently, was also moved by the League to Tuscany.