The motion of censure by the Lombard regional councilor for security, Romano La Russa, was rejected with 46 votes out of 72, asking to "revoke the appointment as regional councilor", for "an act of celebration of fascism"
, first signed by the leader of the Democratic Party, Fabio Pizzul, and signed by numerous exponents of all minority groups.
The president of the Region Attilio Fontana was absent during the debate.
The provision came after the commissioner La Russa, on the occasion of the funeral of his brother-in-law and right-wing exponent Alberto Stabilini, had participated in the rite of the 'present'.
For the Democratic Party, "we are faced with the total unawareness of how the institutional role is represented"
and the "impossibility of holding the office with honor".
The councilor of Lombardi civici Europea, Elisabetta Strada, noted that "the letter of apology (written by La Russa ed) shows that the inappropriateness of the fact has not been understood".
'No nostalgia in the Lombardy Region' was written on the signs exhibited by the Five Star Movement, removed by the clerks.
According to Fdi's group leader Barbara Mazzali, the gesture of the Roman salute is "without political value", so much so that "party leader Giorgia Meloni has defined it as anti-historical"
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The gesture, "for when it can be traced back to a private moment - she adds - does not represent the political position linked to the Brothers of Italy party, but a personal gesture".
The media hype, for Mazzali, was "an electoral propaganda tool to evoke ghosts that do not belong to our party".
On the same line is the intervention of the
parent company of Forza Italia, Gianluca Comazzi: "It is clear that there is no danger of fascism in this region as in this country"
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The commissioner then "apologized, so there is no theme".
"I immediately apologized to those who felt offended because I understood the inappropriateness of the gesture, which damaged my party more than anyone else. And these are excuses that I renew today with even more conviction, if needed"
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Thus La Russa himself, during the discussion in the Regional Council of the motion of censure.
It was the first speech in the classroom of La Russa, who noted: "I would have imagined another entry in the classroom and I am sorry first of all to myself. For my part there is no will that wants to be contrary to the text of the Constitution , which I have always served and accepted even if in some passages I might not like it, in all my institutional activities ".
The event, he explains, "was an end in itself and had nothing to do with political significance".
Furthermore, the Roman salute is performed "not with much conviction" because, he admits, "I was aware of the gesture I was going to make, done in order not to fail at Albert's last wishes".
For La Russa, the affair has become "incomprehensibly" national news because "in the election campaign everything is allowed"
