Meloni includes in his cabinet a deputy minister who disguised himself as a Nazi in 2005

Giorgia Meloni’s stage as Italian Prime Minister has begun with controversy. Inside her new Cabinet, she stands Galeazzo Bignamia member of the far-right formation of ‘The Brothers of Italy’, who is known for having a photograph in which he wears a Nazi SS bracelet on his arm.

The image, in which he can be seen wearing a black T-shirt and wearing an SS bracelet on his arm, was taken in 2005 during, as the politician has clarified, a bachelor party. Is transpired in 2016 after an Italian media published a news about it.

Bignami, linked from a young age to the right in his city, Bologna, began his political career with the post-fascists of Alianza Nacional to later go to Forza Italia and since 2019 military to Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, details Eph. A lawyer by profession, at 47 years old he has secured his second term after the results obtained in the last elections.

This has not been the only incident that the Italian politician has starred in. In 2019, it was published on Facebook a series of videos in which called the phones of people with foreign surnames in official protection housing in Bologna to ensure that they did not have the right to this type of housing.

Meloni has declined to comment on the 2016 photo, but has repeatedly condemned the “infamous racist and anti-Jewish laws” enacted by dictator Benito Mussolini in 1938, and last week told parliament that he “never felt any sympathy for the fascism”.

“I have always considered the (anti-Semitic) racial laws of 1938 the lowest point in Italian history, a shame that will stain our people forever,” he told parliament.

Several associations against fascism in Italy have called for him to be removed from office. During World War II, the transalpine country was the main ally of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany.

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Last September, the far-right coalition won the Italian elections in the midst of a climate of social tension and economic crisis in the country. The Brothers of Italy obtained about 43% of the total votes.