Marc Lazar is Professor of History and Political Sociology at Sciences Po and President of the School of Government at LUISS University in Rome.
Le Figaro: What is the history and place on the Italian political spectrum of the right-wing Fratelli d'Italia party,
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Fratelli d'Italia is a recent party, born in 2012, which comes from an old political family which is that of neofascism and post-fascism at the same time, marked by the Italian Social Movement (MSI) created after the Second World War then by the National Alliance from the 1990s. The latter party gradually emerged from its relationship with the fascist heritage, as Fratelli d'Italia leader Giorgia Meloni is currently trying to do.
But the Fratelli d'Italia party is above all an opposition party today since it has not taken part in any government since its creation.
He was in opposition to the technical government of Mario Monti (2011-2013), of the long legislature…
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