This April 25, feast of "the liberation of the territory", which still divides Italy

Rome

Since the year 1946, every April 25, Italy commemorates, with a public holiday, the partisan uprising against the Nazi occupation army on April 25, 1945, and against the fascists who had founded the Republic of Salo .

But this celebration of "

" from foreign occupiers, like the end of twenty years of fascism, is not celebrated by all Italians, especially not by the far right, which has never wanted to recognize this anniversary.

Starting with Fratelli d'Italia, the party of Giorgia Meloni, in power since last September.

Thus, for several months, many of its elected officials have systematically refused to evoke a celebration which they consider recovered by the left, which, they fear, risks delegitimizing them.

The President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, one of the founders of the party, even affirmed at the end of October: “

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