Milan’s most important airport can be renamed after former Italian prime minister and enterprise tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, Transport Minister Matteo Salvini stated on Friday.

Berlusconi, who died final 12 months aged 86, led 4 governments on the helm of his centre-right Forza Italia celebration, and was one among Italy’s most divisive figures of contemporary occasions.

Talking at a convention in southern Italy, Salvini stated the civil aviation authority had permitted a request by the Lombardy area round Milan to rename Malpensa airport in honour of Berlusconi, who hailed from the nation’s monetary capital.

“Seeing as the ultimate choice rests with the transport minister, I actually suppose it’s going to go forward,” stated Salvini, chief of the rightist League celebration and a long-time Berlusconi ally.

“In reminiscence of my buddy Silvio, a fantastic businessman, a fantastic Milanese citizen and a fantastic Italian,” Salvini later posted on social media platform X above a photograph of Berlusconi and Malpensa airport.

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