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"Calling Fratelli d'Italia a 'post-fascist party' no longer makes sense"

2022-09-26T15:59:28.125Z


INTERVIEW - If Giorgia Meloni openly expressed her sympathy for Mussolini in her youth, the president of the winning party in the Italian legislative elections has since very clearly repudiated fascism, explains Thibault Muzergues.


Thibault Muzergues and program director at the International Republican institute.

His work focuses in particular on the European right.

He just published War in Europe?

From Impossible War to Improbable Peace (Routledge, 2022).

LE FIGARO.- What are the political roots of the formation of Giorgia Meloni, Fratelli d'Italia?

Thibault MUZERGUES.-

Giorgia Meloni founded Fratelli d'Italia in 2012, after the failure of the rallying of all rights around Silvio Berlusconi in his party "Il Popolo della Libertà" (PdL).

However, it is in fact the rebirth, under another name, of the Alleanza nazionale of Gianfranco Fini, which had dissolved into the Berlusconian alliance of the PdL at the end of the 2000s. -even created the Alleanza nazionale party in 1994, on the ruins of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), which had originally been created as a neo-fascist party in 1945, then post-fascist from the 1950s (under the motto at the time...

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