In recent years Milan has changed profoundly. Just look at its new skyline. It is a city that has brilliantly passed the Expo test. It has an efficient public transport structure which makes it a European city. It is certainly the most advanced in Italy. But the next administrative elections in June are a decisive stepping stone both to consolidate the results achieved and to project itself into that metropolitan dimension that could make Milan even more a place of absolute excellence. And this just as the scandals in the Lombardy Region unfortunately demonstrate that the moral issue is far from over. And therefore the political choices that citizens make through voting are not indifferent to the present and the future of a city or a country.
Politically, a great opportunity is opening up in Milan for a center-left government capable of representing a point of reference for the whole country. An opportunity that can only materialize through the success of the candidate Giuseppe Sala, the only one, after Giuliano Pisapia's declaration of unwillingness to run again, able to emerge clearly first thanks to the management of Expo and then by winning the participated and very orderly primary elections. The candidate of the Milanese Right Stefano Parisi is undoubtedly capable; but he lends his image to cover a cultural project of closure, of fear of the new, of substantial isolation that the coalition hegemonized by Salvini's League inevitably expresses. Exactly what Milan doesn't need. However, it will be a very tough electoral match. Also because, behind the administrative affair in Milan, the challenge for the leadership of the country's government in 2018 peeps out. Renzi knows it, but so do his potential opponents who in Milan also deploy the structural ambiguities of Maurizio Lupi's NCD .
In short, it will be a sort of general rehearsal, much more so than in other large cities called to vote. For this reason, the infantilism of a certain "left" that turns up its nose at Sala, which instead can ensure an industrious continuity of the positive experience of Pisapia, who welded the orange revolution with the pragmatic Milanese bourgeoisie, appears even more serious. There are therefore many points of interest that make the administrative offices of Milan very political. And this requires a supplementary warning and responsibility for all the protagonists, however they think. As far as I'm concerned, the support for Sala Mayor is without uncertainties and ambiguities.
