An interview by the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa to La Stampa, largely focused on his militancy on the right and on government action, raises the Democratic Party on the theme of the April 25 celebrations.
"Since I was born, in my family and in my political part,
I have always felt a fierce condemnation of racial laws
and I have always had a very close relationship with the Milanese Jewish community of personal friendship, for example with Walker Meghnagi and already with his father Isaac , leading exponents of the Jewish community. And not only with them, "he explains.
"It could be limited to being a personal fact, but from the political point of view the Italian right has always been for the existence and independence of Israel - he recalls - when others threatened its integrity, and has always been ready without hesitation to condemn the racial laws, not to mention the tragedy of the Shoah ".
When asked whether or not he will celebrate April 25, he replies: "It depends. Certainly I will not parade in the parades as they are held today.
Because there is not a celebration of freedom and democracy but something completely different, the prerogative of a certain left. Not I had difficulty as Minister of Defense to bring a wreath of flowers to the monument of the partisans at the Maggiore cemetery in Milan. And it was not a duty ".
For him "we must overcome fascism and anti-fascism".
The Democratic Party rises
.
"April 25 is the feast of all Italians because thanks to April 25 we are all Italian citizens. Even those who were on the wrong side at the time".
The secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta
, writes on social media
.
"I remind the President @Ignazio_LaRussa the meaning of April # 25: freedom from Nazi-fascism. A day that is a holiday and that should see us united. The President of the Senate is the second position in the state. Pd in the Senate,
Simona Malpezzi
.
"To President Malpezzi whom I respect and whose intellectual honesty and who is attacking me at this time, I kindly ask you to read not the deliberately misleading title of La Stampa but the text of my interview correctly reported by the journalist Colonel in which it emerges clear my respect for the anniversary of April 25, so much so that I
celebrated it as Minister of Defense
. My
opposition is, if anything, only to the way in which so far many parades take place that far from celebrating it, make it a manifestation of the left
", says the president of the Senate,
Ignazio La Russa
.
"The President of the Senate would do well to remember that April 25 is the feast of all Italians because it is the feast of democracy and freedom from Nazi-Fascism conquered with the sacrifice of many women and men. And as such it should be celebrated. La Russa avoids divisive words. The country needs unity, especially around its founding moments ".
So
Debora Serracchiani
, Pd group leader in the Chamber.
"La Russa wants to" overcome fascism and anti-fascism ", as if they were the same thing. These words are not from the President of the Senate. He stands there and speaks because the anti-fascists won. If the fascists had won, there would still be a dictatorship. Read Foa, respect the Constitution ".
So on Twitter the senator of the Democratic Party
Walter Verini
.