She died on Thursday afternoon Mirella Cerini, mayor of Castellanza, was 50 years old and in her second term at the helm of the city in the south of the province of Varese. It was news that shook the tranquility of the town, the last offshoot of the Varesotto before the metropolitan city of Milan on a day of celebration, and which spread on Thursday afternoon. To hit the mayor, from what appears, it was a fatal illness.
Cerini had participated in the celebrations for April 25th in the morning and what killed her was probably a heart attack. The body was found by an officer of the local police command in the internal courtyard of the municipal building around 1.30 pm: he still had the Tricolor sash on. At the end of the Liberation Day ceremony, he told his councilors that he wanted to go up to the office to drink something hot because he wasn’t feeling very well. She entered the municipal building and died there. The city is in shockthe mayor was particularly respected by her fellow administrators in the Valle Olona area with whom she had established an excellent collaborative relationship, and was also appreciated by those who had political ideas distant from hers, who placed themselves in a progressive area.
Different messages of condolenceone among all that of Roberto Grassi, president of Confindustria Varese of which the Liuc university – Università Cattaneo is an expression (founded in 1991 on the initiative of the Union of Industrialists of the Province of Varese in Castellanza): «We are astonished and deeply saddened by the sudden death of the mayor of Castellanza Mirella Cerini, a far-sighted administrator, always ready to listen and dedicated to her city. Polite and kind in her ways, at the same time determined, in interpreting her role for the common good». Qualities «that we have been able to appreciate in this last year in which we have worked a lot together on development projects. As president of Confindustria Varese, on behalf of all our companies, I express my deepest condolences to his family”, concluded Grassi.
