Milan municipal election, 2011
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Municipal elections were held in Milan on 15–16 and 29–30 May 2011, at the same time as Italian local elections.
The incumbent Mayor of Milan, Letizia Moratti, was defeated by the center-left candidate Giuliano Pisapia.
Councillors and presidents of the 9 administrative zones of the city were also to be decided in the elections. Of these, the center-left coalition controlled one and the center-right eight. 48 councillors were due to be elected in the City Council.
As a result of the election, Pisapia was elected on the second round becoming the first leftist mayor of Milan after nearly 20 years. The center-left coalition gained control of 29 seats in the City Council.
In June 2010, Pisapia was the first to submit his own nomination as the Mayor of Milan, for the elections that would take place the following year. A number of intellectuals and notable people from the cultural and political elite of Milan immediately expressed their support of Pisapia.
On 14 November 2010 he ran for the open primary election of the center-left coalition led by the Democratic Party, with the support of Nichi Vendola's Left Ecology Freedom, and unexpectedly won (receiving 45% preferences) despite not being an actual member of the PD.
Total voters: 67,499
At the beginning of the campaign, incumbent Mayor Letizia Moratti was thought to be largely advantaged, especially as Milan is traditionally a right-wing stronghold, the homeland of Silvio Berlusconi's party (to which Moratti belongs), as well as a symbol of the alliance between Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi's Lega Nord, a party that promotes a greater independence of Northern Italy. Both Bossi and Berlusconi repeatedly declared that the left wing had no chance to win the elections in Milan, and Berlusconi himself actively contributed in the campaign, possibly to reaffirm his appeal to the Italian people leveraging on the results of what was supposed to be an easy match. Berlusconi warned that if Moratti was defeated, Milan would become a "Gypsytown" and an "Islamic city". The Milan Islamic Center criticized these remarks.
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