Critics say message is part of election game plan and point to recent speech on immigration and homosexuality
A declaration by Giorgia Meloni, who could be Italy’s next prime minister, that her far-right party has consigned fascism to history has been greeted with scepticism.party with neofascist origins
Brothers of Italy leads a coalition that includes Matteo Salvini’s far-right League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, which is forecast to win general elections on 25 September.The video sparked a row with her rival Enrico Letta, the leader of the centre-left Democratic party, who implied her comments were merely cosmetic.
Meloni joined the youth wing of MSI at the age of 15. Among the first people she met was Marco Marsilio, the current president of the Abruzzo region. A few days after the elections, Meloni told Corriere della Sera there were no “nostalgic fascists, racists or antisemites in the Brothers of Italy DNA” and that she had always got rid of “ambiguous people”.
Cheles’s research has found that fascist imagery was used in posters, brochures and anthems of the National Alliance youth wing and later Brothers of Italy, and that Meloni’s slogans frequently echo those of Mussolini.
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