Editing Milan (section)

== Administration ==

=== Municipal government ===
{{See also|Mayor of Milan|City Council of Milan|Elections in Milan|Boroughs of Milan}}
[[File:Milano pal Marino piazza Scala.jpg|thumb|[[Palazzo Marino]], Milan City Hall]]
[[File:Piazza Gae Aulenti with Palazzo Lombardia.jpg|thumb|[[Palazzo Lombardia]], headquarters of the regional government of Lombardy]]
[[File:Milan, administrative divisions - Nmbrs - colored.svg|thumb|The city's nine ''municipi'' ("boroughs")]]

The legislative body of the Italian {{langx|it|comuni|links=no|label=none}} is the [[City Council of Milan|City Council]] (''Consiglio Comunale''), which in cities with more than one million population is composed by 48 councillors elected every five years with a proportional system, at the same time of the mayoral elections. The executive body is the City Committee (''Giunta Comunale''), composed by 12 [[Assessor (Italy)|assessors]], that is nominated and presided over by a directly elected [[Mayor of Milan|Mayor]]. The current mayor of Milan is [[Giuseppe Sala (politician)|Giuseppe Sala]], an independent leading a centre-left alliance led by the [[Democratic Party (Italy)|Democratic Party]].

The municipality of Milan is subdivided into nine administrative Borough Councils (''Consigli di Municipio''), down from the former twenty districts before the 1999 administrative reform.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Borough Councils of Milan|url=http://www.comune.milano.it/portale/wps/portal/CDM?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/ContentLibrary/In%20Comune/In%20Comune/I%20Consigli%20di%20Zona|publisher=Municipality of Milan|access-date=18 October 2012|archive-date=18 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418043458/http://www.comune.milano.it/portale/wps/portal/CDM?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=%2Fwps%2Fwcm%2Fconnect%2FContentLibrary%2FIn%20Comune%2FIn%20Comune%2FI%20Consigli%20di%20Zona|url-status=live}}</ref> Each Borough Council is governed by a Council (''Consiglio'') and a President, elected contextually to the city Mayor. The urban organisation is governed by the Italian Constitution (art. 114), the Municipal Statute<ref>{{cite web|title=The Municipal Statute of Milan|url=http://www.comune.milano.it/portale/wps/portal/CDM?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/contentlibrary/In+Comune/In+Comune/Normativa/|publisher=Municipality of Milan|access-date=18 October 2012|archive-date=16 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316102931/http://comune.milano.it/portale/wps/portal/CDM?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=%2Fwps%2Fwcm%2Fconnect%2Fcontentlibrary%2FIn+Comune%2FIn+Comune%2FNormativa%2F|url-status=live}}</ref> and several laws, notably the Legislative Decree 267/2000 or Unified Text on Local Administration (''Testo Unico degli Enti Locali'').<ref>{{cite web|title=Local self-government authority system under the Italian legislation|url=http://www1.interno.gov.it/mininterno/export/sites/default/en/themes/state-local_authority_relations/Local_self-government_authority_system.html|publisher=Italian Ministry of Internal Affairs|access-date=18 October 2012|archive-date=18 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218095839/http://www1.interno.gov.it/mininterno/export/sites/default/en/themes/state-local_authority_relations/Local_self-government_authority_system.html|url-status=live}}</ref> After the 2016 administrative reform, the Borough Councils have the power to advise the Mayor with nonbinding opinions on a large spectrum of topics and are responsible for running most local services, such as schools, social services, waste collection, roads, parks, libraries and local commerce; in addition they are supplied with an autonomous funding to finance local activities.

=== Metropolitan city ===
[[File:Milano - palazzo Isimbardi - facciata.jpg|thumb|right|[[Palazzo Isimbardi]] is the seat of the Council of the [[Metropolitan City of Milan]].]]

Milan is the capital of the eponymous Metropolitan city. According to the last governmental dispositions concerning administrative reorganisation, the urban area of Milan is one of the 15 [[Metropolitan cities of Italy|Metropolitan municipalities]] (''città metropolitane''), new administrative bodies fully operative since 1 January 2015.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spending Review Act |url=http://www.governo.it/Presidenza/Comunicati/dettaglio.asp?d=68656 |publisher=Italian Government |access-date=18 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120714005846/http://www.governo.it/Presidenza/Comunicati/dettaglio.asp?d=68656 |archive-date=14 July 2012}}</ref> The new Metro municipalities, giving large urban areas the administrative powers of a province, are conceived for improving the performance of local administrations and to slash local spending by better co-ordinating the municipalities in providing basic services (including transport, school and social programs) and environment protection.<ref name="Ferri">{{Cite web |url=https://unseendestination.com/europe/15-best-places-visit-italy/ |title=Metropolitan cities in Italy |access-date=26 May 2020 |archive-date=31 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200531175306/https://unseendestination.com/europe/15-best-places-visit-italy/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> In this policy framework, the Mayor of Milan is designated to exercise the functions of Metropolitan mayor (''Sindaco metropolitano''), presiding over a Metropolitan Council formed by 24 mayors of municipalities within the Metro municipality. The Metropolitan City of Milan is headed by the Metropolitan Mayor (''Sindaco metropolitano'') and by the Metropolitan Council (''Consiglio metropolitano''). Since 21 June 2016, Giuseppe Sala, as mayor of the capital city, has been the mayor of the Metropolitan City.

=== Regional government ===
Milan is also the capital of Lombardy, one of the twenty [[Regions of Italy|regions]] of Italy. Lombardy is by far the most populated region of Italy, with more than ten million inhabitants, almost one sixth of the national total. It is governed by a Regional Council, composed of 80 members elected for a five-year term. On 26 March 2018, a list of candidates of the [[Centre-right coalition (Italy)|centre-right coalition]], a coalition of centrist and right-wing parties, led by Attilio Fontana, largely won the regional election, defeating a coalition of socialists, liberals and ecologists and a third-party candidate from the populist [[Five Stars Movement]]. The conservatives have governed the region almost uninterruptedly since 1970. The regional council has 48 members from the centre-right coalition, 18 from the [[Centre-left coalition (Italy)|centre-left coalition]] and 13 from the Five Star Movement. The seat of the regional government is [[Palazzo Lombardia]] that, standing at {{convert|161.3|m|abbr=off}},<ref>{{cite web|title=Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat|url=http://www.ctbuh.org/Awards/AllPastWinners/12_PalazzoLombardia/tabid/3360/language/en-GB/Default.aspx|access-date=18 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027145405/http://ctbuh.org/Awards/AllPastWinners/12_PalazzoLombardia/tabid/3360/language/en-GB/Default.aspx|archive-date=27 October 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> is the fifth-tallest building in Milan.