Sala, the new councilor for urban planning, hands the ball to the Democratic Party, which postpones everything until September.

Milan, July 26, 2025 – The appointment of a new City Planning Councilor is headed for a postponement until September. The Milanese Democratic Party is now considering it highly likely that the new municipal structure will be postponed until after the summer break. This is because it's not easy to find a successor in just a few days to Urban Regeneration Councilor Giancarlo Tancredi , who resigned last Monday following the prosecutor's investigation, which called for the arrest of the former municipal executive promoted to the 2021 council.
The mayor Giuseppe Sala, meanwhile, has handed over the Urban Planning responsibilities to Deputy Mayor Anna Scavuzzo and left it to the Milan Democratic Party secretary, Alessandro Capelli, to propose one or more names from which to select the new councilor. A technician with political experience or a politician with recognized expertise in urban planning is unlikely to find such a candidate in such a controversial phase for the center-left administration, which is still under scrutiny by the Prosecutor's Office, which has also placed the mayor under investigation.
Sala, meanwhile, has left the Democratic Party (PD) to deal with. Is the party holding the relative majority at Palazzo Marino calling for discontinuity in urban planning decisions? Well, the mayor seems to be saying, then let the Democratic Party itself find the right man or woman.
As for the top consultant for legality and transparency, manager and former financier Federico D'Andrea , recently appointed president of Principia, the former Arexpo, his fate seems tied to that of the new councilor. If the selection of the new council member has been postponed until September, the appointment of the top consultant could suffer the same fate . Meanwhile, Scavuzzo has already begun work on key urban planning dossiers, and some in the municipality predict that she may ultimately retain her new responsibilities longer than expected.
Following Lombardy Governor Attilio Fontana's mild comments regarding the investigation targeting the Municipality, the Regional Council yesterday decided to up the ante on Palazzo Marino. The chamber approved a motion from majority regional councilor Luca Ferrazzi , president of the Mixed Group, committing the Lombardy Regional Council to consider "replacing" the Municipality of Milan in urban planning matters following the new judicial developments that emerged in recent days. The motion, which effectively aims to place Palazzo Marino under special administration for urban planning, was approved during the budget adjustment debate with the center-right voting in favor and the center-left voting against.
The response to the center-right at the Pirellone was entrusted to the Democratic Party group leader in the City Council, Beatrice Uguccioni: "Perhaps some have forgotten what it means to have the right governing the territories. We haven't. Despite the recent upheavals, in Milan only 1.2% more land has been consumed from 2007 to 2023. "
Il Giorno