Editing Milan (section)

=== 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.