A brawl erupts in the Council, following Sala's speech, the opposition thunders: "The city is blocked, go away!"
Milan, July 21, 2025 – Signs displaying five questions about urban planning. And calls for his resignation continue, clarified and reconsidered, also in light of the fair play practiced by national leaders: " Giuseppe Sala and his council must resign not because of the investigation but because the city is at a standstill ." This position was also expressed yesterday by the Brothers of Italy and the League in the City Council. The Democratic Party, however, defends the mayor. EuropaVerde and AVS, however, do not.
"The most heated day of Sala's second term has disappointed the center-right opposition. Councilor Giancarlo Tancredi's death was called for, but the mayor absolved himself politically ," attacks Riccardo Truppo , leader of the FdI group. "The center-left majority has proven to be completely uneven on the city's major challenges. The Democratic Party first criticized the mayor, giving him a shopping list, demanding a complete change of direction, and the mayor himself was happy with everything. We would have preferred, however, that Sala not want to be a clay pot among the iron pots."
"The League's assessment ," reads a statement released from Rome, "of Sala's administration is dire , and not because of the judicial investigations currently engulfing Palazzo Marino. While waiting for the judiciary to take its course, the city has become a bespoke boutique for millionaires, increasingly unsafe, distrustful, and paralyzed, incapable of retaining young people, precarious workers, or the middle class. The center-left has gravely failed and should allow Milanese people to return to the polls."
In the chamber , Deputy Secretary Silvia Sardone spoke for the Northern League: "The mayor, in his role as an Attack on the Wall, wanted to impose a slow agony on Milan. Beppe Sala's 2021 mayoral program read 'incorruptible, capable, and independent.' A few years later, these are tragicomic words that speak volumes about the ineffective and arrogant left . We wanted a step back because the disasters of this government are multiplying day after day. Instead, for the next two years, the administration will continue to muddle through, forcing Milan to remain stagnant amidst degradation, insecurity, and some green follies ."
The Democratic Party (PD) has a completely different opinion. " Mayor Sala gave a beautiful and sincere speech. Now we must move forward with great combativeness, unity, and energy," says Pierfrancesco Majorino, Democratic Party group leader in the Regional Council and member of the Democratic Party 's national secretariat. "We must begin a new phase. No one wants to spend these last two years just getting by; it would be an insult to the Milanese spirit," emphasizes Beatrice Uguccioni, Democratic Party group leader in the City Council. "There are those who today pretend not to see the progress the city has made and try to indiscriminately criminalize everything. But Milan has become the most advanced point in the country, a bridge between Italy and the world. Now let's use this storm to question some policies that currently struggle to meet the needs of Milanese people. Let's start again united and cohesive. Not thinking about 2027 (the end of Sala's term), but 2032."
In his speech, Uguccioni also evoked two names that are symbolic in the relationship between politics and the judiciary: " We are here for an investigation. And so I say it clearly, left and right. I name two: Pietro Tatarella and Filippo Penati. Acquitted after seeing their lives turned upside down." Critic Carlo Monguzzi , a longtime environmentalist for the Greens, said: "It all ended in a huff. Unacceptable. The only thing that matters is selling San Siro."
The clash between Sala and city councilor Enrico Marcora , a member of the Brothers of Italy party, was particularly heated. Marcora posted a photo on social media the day before yesterday of the mayor dressed as a convict . "I have reported the case to the leaders of the Brothers of Italy party, to the Prime Minister, and to the Senate," Sala said. " Right to satire," he replied.
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