2025 Municipal Elections in Santo Stefano Lodigiano: Polls Open to Choose New Mayor

Santo Stefano Lodigiano (Lodi) – A new round of voting has arrived: polls are open today, Sunday 25 May, from 7am to 11pm, and tomorrow, Monday 26 May, from 7am to 3pm . There are 18 municipalities in Lombardy voting to choose the mayor and renew the Council, only one in the province of Lodi: Santo Stefano Lodigiano .

It will be a three-way challenge. The former mayor Marinella Testolina, a nurse, 57 years old, who, due to the resignation of many councilors with the subsequent administration of the Municipality, had to interrupt her mandate, is trying for an encore at the helm of the civic list Continuità e Futuro. "The work carried out from 2020 to 2025 by our administration is leading to the overcoming of the Ghiringhelli case, (following the trial of the former mayor Massimiliano Lodigiani for defrauding an incompetent, ed.) - said the candidate -. In addition to stabilizing the financial situation, we have also redeveloped the Waste Collection Center, secured the sidewalk of via Polenghi and via Trento e Trieste, removed asbestos in the town hall, redeveloped the public lighting, made the windows of the town hall more efficient from the point of view of energy saving, worked on territorial video surveillance, secured the Santa Maria farmhouse, in addition to having renewed 17 municipal regulations".

Also running for mayor is the civic group Il Bene Comune, with mayoral candidate Paola Rossi, a 52-year-old professional educator - Adult Autism Area Representative for the Piacenza Local Health Authority. “From our love for our land comes a concrete program for the future, divided into 8 strategic areas,” they assure. The objectives: listening spaces, promotion of associations and volunteering and creation of neighborhood committees; collaboration with the parish to support families; strengthening relationships with neighboring municipalities; attention to nursery schools, strengthening home health care, support for the elderly, enhancing civil protection; relaunching the local economy , promoting neighborhood trade and new job opportunities, through the installation of information totems and noticeboards; implementation of video surveillance, coordination between law enforcement agencies, streamlining of public lighting and relaunching neighborhood watch , activating a surveillance service with neighboring towns; promotion of cultural, gastronomic and social events , enhancement of the library and promotion of festivals; redevelopment of the road system, with particular attention to the Chiavicone area and the hamlets, removal of architectural barriers, redevelopment of street furniture, promotion of energy efficiency; incentives for slow tourism, protection of green areas and creation of dog areas; support for sports activities, requalifying meeting spaces and promoting educational and cultural projects; introduction of the Youth Municipal Council; adaptation of the PGT to the Provincial Coordination Plan”.

Finally, the Uniti per ripartire list that is nominating Mauro Bonfanti, 57, an employee living in Codogno, a former minority councilor, a councilor from 1996 to 2006 in Codogno in the Croce Council, as mayor. There are ten main points in the electoral program , proposed by "a team of people with strong ties to the territory, present and active who, with the citizens, work, with competence, for the common good of Santo Stefano and want to restart everything that has remained stationary, after four years of complete immobility" Bonfanti underlined. The immediate priorities are: maintaining the nursery school service in the town; redeveloping and regulating the use of the ecological area; increasing the perception of safety; restoring the neighborhood watch service; improving assistance to the elderly; providing concrete help and support to families in difficult situations; maintenance of roads, sidewalks, public parks and the cemetery; interventions to reduce and slow down traffic in the Fornasone - Chiavicone hamlets and in other critical points of the town; Collaborate with the Pro Loco, associations and the Parish; promote sports days for young people.

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