Marco Formentini

Marco Formentini (1992)

Marco Formentini (born April 14, 1930 in La Spezia , † January 2, 2021 in Milan ) was an Italian politician . As a member of Lega Nord , he was mayor of Milan from 1993 to 1997. From 1994 to 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament , first again for Lega Nord, then for I Democratici and La Margherita .

Life

Formentini fought as a youth in the final phase of the Second World War as a partisan in the Resistenza . After the war ended, the family moved to Belgium. He graduated from Pisa University in 1952 with a law degree . From 1956 he worked for the European Communities in Luxembourg and Brussels. In 1958 he moved to Milan. In the 1970s he got involved with the Partito Socialista Italiano and was secretary of the regional government of Lombardy from 1970 to 1975 .

In 1991 he joined the Lega Nord and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament the following year. In the local elections in June 1993 he ran as mayoral candidate of the Lega Nord and won with 39% in the first and 57% in the second ballot. In the European elections in 1994 Formentini was elected to the European Parliament as the representative of the constituency of north-west Italy. There he joined the liberal faction to which the Lega Nord was still a member. Until January 1997 he was a member of the Committee on Research, Technological Development and Energy and the Delegation to the EU-Cyprus Joint Parliamentary Committee. After the Lega Nord left the Liberal Group, he was non-attached and a member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism . In the 1997 mayoral election, Formentini received only 19.1% and was eliminated in the first ballot. He was succeeded by Gabriele Albertini from Forza Italia .

In the 1999 European elections, however, he was confirmed as a member of the EU Parliament. A few months after the election, he left the Lega Nord and joined the new liberal party I Democratici . In this Arturo Parisi played a leading role, with whom Formentini was friends. Unlike the Lega Nord, which was part of Berlusconi's center-right alliance, I Democratici were part of the center-left bloc. During this time Formentini sat again in the liberal group of the European Parliament. Until January 2002 he was a member of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport , then of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and delegate for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union . In 2002 I Democratici became part of the Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita party , to which Formentini belonged until 2007.

In the 2004 European elections, he stood for the center-left alliance L'Ulivo , but was not re-elected. Formentini initially took part in the merger of La Margherita with the Democratici di Sinistra (Left Democrats) to form the Partito Democratico (PD). In the primary election of the party chairman, he supported the Christian Democrat Rosy Bindi , who only came in third. In November 2008 Formentini left the PD and joined the small party Democrazia Cristiana per le Autonomie (DCA), which was part of Silvio Berlusconi's center-right government. The DCA merged with Forza Italia and Alleanza Nazionale in 2009 to form the center-right collecting party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL), of which Formentini subsequently belonged.

Web links

• Marco Formentini in the European Parliament 's database of MEPs
• Corriere.it: Formentini perde la stampella di Hutter

Individual evidence

1. ^ E. So: È morto Marco Formentini, l'ex sindaco di Milano aveva 90 anni. In: Corriere della Sera. January 2, 2021, accessed January 2, 2021 (Italian).