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TAR doesn't block Malpensa being named after Berlusconi

TAR doesn't block Malpensa being named after Berlusconi

'Lesson for Left that reduces everything to legal disputes'

ROME, 11 November 2024, 12:53

ANSA English Desk

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The Lombardy Regional Administration Court (TAR) on Monday rejected an appeal by leftwing parties to halt the naming of Milan's Malpensa Airport after late three-time premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi.
    Sources at the transport ministry, whose chief and rightwing League leader Matteo Salvini had pushed strongly for the move which was approved by the ministry last summer, voiced "great satisfaction" at the TAR's ruling.
    "It is a lesson for the Left that does not win elections and reduces everything to a matter of judicial dispute" said the sources.
    The transport ministry said on July 11 that Malpensa had officially been named after Berlusconi.
    Milan's centre left Mayor Giuseppe Sala and leftwing parties appealed against the decision saying Berlusconi, who died in June last year aged 86, was, and remains, a divisive figure.
    Salvini, whose League is a long-time ally of Berlusconi's centre right Forza Italia (FI) party, at the time dismissed Sala's complaint saying "the Left is going mad because we kept our promise to dedicate Malpensa Aiport to Silvio Berlusconi,a great man, a great Italian, who created hundreds of thousands of jobs.
    "There isn't anyone on the Left who is worth a tenth of what Silvio Berlusconi is worth. We wont' stop in the face of insults, attacks and slurs," said Salvini.
    He said Sala should instead focus on solving Milan's problems with potholes, urban decorum and rising levels of crime and insecurity, among other things.
    Critics of the naming have contrasted what they say will be a "Bunga Bunga Airport" to other Italian airports named after allegedly more illustrious figures such as Leonardo da Vinci (Rome), Marco Polo (Venice), Christopher Columbus (Genoa), Sandro Pertini (Turin), Catullus (Verona), Guglielmo Marconi (Bologna), Galileo Galilei (Pisa) and Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino (Palermo).
    Berlusconi supporters say he is a worthy recipient of the honour because he was a great statesman and Italy's longest serving postwar premier, as well as transforming Milan with his futuristic housing developments and changing the face of Italian media.
   

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