(ANSA) - MILAN, 05 MAR - The former mayor of Milan and two-time minister Carlo Tognoli died this morning in the Lombard capital. Bobo Craxi announces it: "Carlo Tognoli, a piece of Milanese history, of Socialist history and also of our life that goes away.
A great pain", he wrote on Twitter.
Tognoli was 82 years old and in November he had been hit by covid, while he was hospitalized at the Gaetano Pin hospital for a fracture of the femur.
Always a member of the PSI, Tognoli was mayor of Milan for 10 years, from 1976 to 1986, before becoming a MEP and then a deputy. He was then minister for the problems of the Urban Areas of Tourism and Entertainment until 1992, and then left all political office. (HANDLE).