Meloni says that nostalgia for fascism has no place in the parliamentary right

Italian prime minister, extreme rightist Giorgia Meloni, assured today that right-wing parliamentary parties “they declared their incompatibility with any nostalgia for fascism” and that the celebration of liberation from Nazism, which is celebrated today, must be a “moment of national harmony”, he wrote in the letter published by the newspaper. Corriere della Sera.

Meloni wrote this letter after the controversy these days after the statements of some members of his party, brothers from Italylike Senate President Ignazio La Russa who declared that the Italian Constitution was not “anti-fascist”.

The Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI), those who fought against the Nazi occupation and fascism, requested this Monday that the Government publicly declare its “anti-fascism”.

On her first 25 April as prime minister, Meloni hoped her thoughts published in the newspaper would “contribute to making this anniversary a moment of rediscovery of national harmony”. in which the celebration of our new freedom will help us understand and strengthen Italy’s role in the world as an indispensable bulwark of democracy.

“From April 25, a democracy was born in Italy where no one wants to give up their acquired freedoms. In which, therefore, freedom and democracy are the heritage of all, whether those who want it like it or not. And it is not only the greatest conquest of which our nation can boast, but also the only real antidote against any authoritarian risk.» writes Meloni.

The Prime Minister adds that “the fundamental fruit of April 25 was undoubtedly and remains the affirmation of democratic values, that fascism has trampled and which we find enshrined in the republican Constitution”.

“For many years, and as every honest observer admits, the parties representing the right in Parliament have declared their incompatibility with any nostalgia for fascism,” the far-right leader points out. Some of the members of the Italian executive They will be in various parts of the country commemorating this national holiday although others such as the Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Matteo Salvini assured that they would spend April 25 with their families.

The day began with the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarello, who went with Meloni and La Russa to the Altar de la Patria in the central square of Venice, where he laid a laurel wreath and then he will visit Cuneo (north) to honor the memory of Duccio Galimberti, the partisan leader who was killed by the fascists at the age of 38.

In a highly criticized gesture, La Russa today confirmed his trip to Prague, where, in addition to participating in a meeting of the presidents of the parliaments of the European Union (EU), he will pay tribute to the monument dedicated to Jan Palach, the hero of the opposition to the Soviet regime. to then visit the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt.