The Municipality of Milan has rejected both proposals for a referendum on the plans by Inter and AC Milan to build a new stadium to replace the San Siro brought forward by the group “Referendum Per San Siro.”
This according to today’s print edition of Rome-based newspaper La Repubblica, who report that the Municipality has rejected the proposed referendum proposals aimed at stopping the clubs’ plans as “lacking technical and accounting feasibility.”
The “Referendum Per San Siro” committee had collected signatures in the hopes of getting ballot measures up for public referendum.
The first measure would have been aimed at protecting the existing San Siro, putting up for a vote whether or not to keep the existing structure standing despite the two clubs plans to demolish it to make way for a new stadium.
The second measure would have been aimed at overturning the approval given to the clubs’ plans as being in the public interest, which was granted in November following the swearing-in of a new city council after the October municipal elections.
In both cases, the Municipality has considered the proposals put forward by the “Referendum For San Siro” committee and concluded that they lack the necessary feasibility to be put up for a public vote.
