Mussolini was a good politician? No fascist ties or leanings? LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni
Controversies
Meloni has expressed statements that generated controversy.[135][136] She praised Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as "a good politician, the best in the last 50 years" in an interview to the French newscast Soir 3 in 1996.[137][138] In May 2020, she praised Giorgio Almirante, the co-founder of the Italian Social Movement (MSI),[139][140] who was a Nazi collaborator and editor-in-chief of the antisemitic and racist magazine La Difesa della Razza,[93][141] which published the "Manifesto of Race" in 1938.[142] In December 2020, the independent journalistic TV program Report revealed through an investigative report that her party "has reached the negative record of arrests for mafia group 'Ndrangheta",[143] and also having among her ranks Mussolini's descendants,[144] as well as fascist nostalgics,[145][146][147] according to a 2021 investigative report by Fanpage.it.[148][149] In November 2018, Meloni declared that the celebration of the Liberation Day, also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation from Nazi-Fascism on 25 April, and Festa della Repubblica, which celebrates the birth of the Italian Republic on 2 June, should be substituted with the National Unity and Armed Forces Day on 4 November, which commemorates Italy's victory in World War I. She said that Liberation Day and Festa della Repubblica are "two controversial celebrations".[150] Meloni has tried to distance herself from her close ties to Roberto Jonghi Lavarini,[151] a far-right Milanese politician and entrepreneur known as the "Black Barron".[152][153][154] In her 2021 biography book I am Giorgia, she wrote that Russia under Vladimir Putin defends European values and Christian identity.[155]
In 2006, Meloni defended the laws passed by the Berlusconi III Cabinet that benefited Berlusconi's companies and also delayed ongoing trials involving him. Meloni stated "it is necessary to contextualise them. Those are laws that Silvio Berlusconi made for himself. But they are perfectly fair laws."[156] After the formation of FdI in 2012, Meloni decided to add the "tricolour flame" symbol to its flag, a symbol associated with MSI, which derived its name and ideals from the Italian Social Republic (RSI) a "violent, socializing, and revolutionary republican" variant of Italian Fascism established as a Nazi German puppet state by Mussolini in 1943.[157] The "tricolour flame" represents Mussolini's remains, where a flame is always burning on his tomb in Predappio.[158] Responding to the 2021 investigation, Meloni minimized the investigation, while she also refused to remove openly neo-fascist members of FdI.[159][160] Shortly before the 2022 general election, Meloni sacked a member that openly praised Adolf Hitler.[64] FdI had also distanced itself from the Ascoli Piceno section of FdI after it celebrated the anniversary of the March on Rome in 2019.[161]
Meloni is a controversial figure in Croatia due to her Italian irredentist statements in which she claimed the Croatian regions of Dalmatia and Istria, and for being opposed to Croatian entry into the European Union due to the unresolved dispute concerning properties of exiled Italians after World War II from Dalmatia and Istria.[162][163]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni
Controversies
Meloni has expressed statements that generated controversy.[135][136] She praised Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as "a good politician, the best in the last 50 years" in an interview to the French newscast Soir 3 in 1996.[137][138] In May 2020, she praised Giorgio Almirante, the co-founder of the Italian Social Movement (MSI),[139][140] who was a Nazi collaborator and editor-in-chief of the antisemitic and racist magazine La Difesa della Razza,[93][141] which published the "Manifesto of Race" in 1938.[142] In December 2020, the independent journalistic TV program Report revealed through an investigative report that her party "has reached the negative record of arrests for mafia group 'Ndrangheta",[143] and also having among her ranks Mussolini's descendants,[144] as well as fascist nostalgics,[145][146][147] according to a 2021 investigative report by Fanpage.it.[148][149] In November 2018, Meloni declared that the celebration of the Liberation Day, also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation from Nazi-Fascism on 25 April, and Festa della Repubblica, which celebrates the birth of the Italian Republic on 2 June, should be substituted with the National Unity and Armed Forces Day on 4 November, which commemorates Italy's victory in World War I. She said that Liberation Day and Festa della Repubblica are "two controversial celebrations".[150] Meloni has tried to distance herself from her close ties to Roberto Jonghi Lavarini,[151] a far-right Milanese politician and entrepreneur known as the "Black Barron".[152][153][154] In her 2021 biography book I am Giorgia, she wrote that Russia under Vladimir Putin defends European values and Christian identity.[155]
In 2006, Meloni defended the laws passed by the Berlusconi III Cabinet that benefited Berlusconi's companies and also delayed ongoing trials involving him. Meloni stated "it is necessary to contextualise them. Those are laws that Silvio Berlusconi made for himself. But they are perfectly fair laws."[156] After the formation of FdI in 2012, Meloni decided to add the "tricolour flame" symbol to its flag, a symbol associated with MSI, which derived its name and ideals from the Italian Social Republic (RSI) a "violent, socializing, and revolutionary republican" variant of Italian Fascism established as a Nazi German puppet state by Mussolini in 1943.[157] The "tricolour flame" represents Mussolini's remains, where a flame is always burning on his tomb in Predappio.[158] Responding to the 2021 investigation, Meloni minimized the investigation, while she also refused to remove openly neo-fascist members of FdI.[159][160] Shortly before the 2022 general election, Meloni sacked a member that openly praised Adolf Hitler.[64] FdI had also distanced itself from the Ascoli Piceno section of FdI after it celebrated the anniversary of the March on Rome in 2019.[161]
Meloni is a controversial figure in Croatia due to her Italian irredentist statements in which she claimed the Croatian regions of Dalmatia and Istria, and for being opposed to Croatian entry into the European Union due to the unresolved dispute concerning properties of exiled Italians after World War II from Dalmatia and Istria.[162][163]
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