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Giuseppe Parlato: “Antifascism has become a catch-all”

4/24/2023, 5:30:09 PM


INTERVIEW - Giuseppe Parlato is a historian and president of the Ugo Spirito and Renzo De Felice Foundation, the archive fund on the Italian right.

LE FIGARO.

- The three Italian rights, Forza Italia, the League and Fratelli d'Italia, have a different point of view on this April 25.

Where does this come from?

Giuseppe PARLATO.

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Forza Italia is initially a liberal party, which has always been anti-fascist in the very name of liberalism.

So he always recognized the importance of April 25th.

When the League was created by Umberto Bossi, its founder also took a resolutely anti-fascist position.

This was attenuated when the party became national, under Matteo Salvini, because by widening its base of voters it also welcomed sympathizers of fascism.

But, today, Salvini and the League clearly condemn him.

As for the history of Fratelli d'Italia, it is more complex.

If the post-war Italian Social Movement was indeed a direct heir of fascism, during its fifty years of history it had gradually detached itself from it, and had begun in Parliament to integrate the values ​​of democracy and pluralism

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