Milan’s fundamental airport might be renamed after former Italian prime minister and enterprise tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, Transport Minister Matteo Salvini stated on Friday.
Berlusconi, who died final yr aged 86, led 4 governments on the helm of his centre-right Forza Italia celebration, and was one among Italy’s most divisive figures of contemporary instances.
Talking at a convention in southern Italy, Salvini stated the civil aviation authority had authorized a request by the Lombardy area round Milan to rename Malpensa airport in honour of Berlusconi, who hailed from the nation’s monetary capital.
“Seeing as the ultimate choice rests with the transport minister, I actually assume it should go forward,” stated Salvini, chief of the rightist League celebration and a long-time Berlusconi ally.
“In reminiscence of my pal Silvio, an excellent businessman, an excellent Milanese citizen and an excellent Italian,” Salvini later posted on social media platform X above a photograph of Berlusconi and Malpensa airport.
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