2025 Municipal Elections in the Province of Milan: Polls Open to Choose New Mayors

Milan, May 25, 2025 – A new round of elections is underway. Polls are open today, Sunday, May 25, from 7:00 to 23:00, and tomorrow, Monday, May 26, from 7:00 to 15:00 . There are 18 municipalities in Lombardy voting to choose the mayor and renew the Council, four in the province of Milan: Cernusco sul Naviglio, Rozzano, Opera and Robecchetto con Induno. The first two have over 15,000 inhabitants and, therefore, risk ending up in the run-off on Sunday, June 8 and Monday, June 9. This appointment is marked by a common denominator: none of these Administrations will expire naturally after the five years required by law. There are various reasons: political crises, resignations, sudden disappearances.

In Cernusco sul Naviglio , in the province of Milan, people are going to vote to elect a new mayor who will take over from Ermanno Zacchetti, who died prematurely in July 2024, and who was elected in 2022. Since his death, the prefect had given the deputy mayor Paola Colombo the task of leading the administration until the first available electoral appointment.

There are four mayoral candidates. Paola Colombo , heir to the Democratic Party-led council that has led the Milanese municipality for four terms. Supported by the Democratic Party, Cernusco Possibile and the Tutti per Cernusco list (with the Manifesto for a Liberal and Reformist Cernusco, which other forces have also joined: Azione, Orizzonti Liberali, towards the Liberal Democratic Party, and + Europa). Then, the principal Claudio Mereghetti , who will run for the centre-right with Dimensione Cernusco, Cernusco al centro, Forza Italia, Lega and Fratelli d’Italia. Then, Danilo Radaelli at the head of Vivere Cernusco and Adesso, and Valentina Tedesco, supported by La Città in Comune, Sinistra per Cernusco and the 5 Stelle.

Rozzano will also have to choose a new mayor after the sudden death of Gianni Ferretti, which occurred last November. His son Mattia, 34 , is ready to take up his father's legacy: a graduate in Economics and Commerce with a master's degree in International Business and experience as a bartender in Scotland, he is currently a city councilor and assessor with responsibility for budgets and participating companies. And he is a candidate for the center-right and will lead the coalition composed of the Rozzano per Ferretti list, supported by Fratelli d'Italia, Forza Italia, Lega per Salvini, and the lists Alleanza per Rozzano, Lombardia Ideale and Noi Moderati. In continuity with the project of the Rozzano center-left, started last year and today enriched by the entry of the 5 Star Movement , the Democratic Party, Alleanza Verdi and Sinistra have announced the candidacy of Leo Missi, manager of a multinational leader in the energy sector.

In Opera , in the Milan area, after a long crisis, last October, the mayor Barbara Barbrieri resigned . For this election, Ettore Fusco is the candidate for mayor of the center-right. The coalition includes three parties also allied to the national and regional government, Lega, Fratelli d'Italia, Forza Italia and Noi Moderati. He was mayor of Opera for ten years, then served as councilor of the metropolitan city. Giuseppe Calcagno is the candidate for mayor of the center-left, supported by the Democratic Party, Italia Viva and Independents of the Center-left of doing. Calcagno, 52, has lived in Opera with his family since 2010. He is a new face on the local political scene, but he brings with him a wealth of technical skills and a strong personal motivation. Between the center-right and the center-left, "Opera Prima" appears on the political scene of Opera, the non-partisan civic list led by Fabiana Di Pino , 47 years old, a municipal employee, who grew up in Opera where, for over 23 years, she worked for the Municipality as an administrator in various sectors: since January 2025 she has been working for another body. After the two terms of Ettore Fusco, Opera has had two mayors; Antonino Nucera (FI and Lega) placed under special administration for judicial matters and Barbara Barbieri, also placed under special administration, but after the split of her center-left majority.

In Robecchetto con Induno, in the Milan area, the choice of a new mayor comes after the premature fall of the council led by Giorgio Braga following the resignation, a year ago, of four majority councilors, including the deputy mayor, a councilor and a former councilor, and the other four from the center-right minority group Rilanciamo Robecchetto e Malvaglio. After what happened, the prefect Claudio Sgaraglia had appointed Sabrina Pane, deputy prefect, as commissioner "for the provisional management of the administration of Robecchetto con Induno". There are two lists in the race, both civic but one center-left and the other center-right. The candidates are Annalisa Baratta of the Civitas list, which has administered the town in recent years, and Valentina Cognetta of the Robecchetto e Malvaglio Insieme list: one center-left, the other center-right. Baratta, 50, is a lawyer with experience in the administrative field, having previously been a councilor for Culture, Social Policies and Sports; Cognetta, 38, is a surveyor specialized in civil and industrial construction. A curiosity: neither of them lives in Robecchetto. Baratta lives in Castano Primo, Cognetta in Buscate.

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