Mussolini’s granddaughter leaves Meloni’s party for Forza Italia: ‘It’s too extremist’

The granddaughter of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who until now was a member of the far-right party Brothers from Italy (FdI), Rachele, has left the formation of the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, to go conservative Forza Italiamore in line with its “moderate and centrist sensitivity” .

The most voted councillor in the Rome City Council with FdI considers that the formation of Meloni has very extremist positions particularly on civil rights and feels more comfortable in the party founded by Silvio Berlusconi and which is now led by the Vice President of the Executive and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, As revealed this Thursday by the newspaper Republic.

“I thank FdI for having believed in me and for having supported me during two candidacies. The affection and esteem remain, but for me the time has come to turn the page and join a party that I feel is closer to my moderate and centrist sensibilities,” said Mussolini.

The granddaughter of Sweet twice elected councillor in the municipal elections in Rome, In the latter, which received the most votes, he maintains differences with Meloni’s ultras, as occurred last August with the controversy surrounding the intersexual character of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, which he described as “a denigrating campaign,” according to the newspaper.

Khleif won the gold medal at the Paris Games and, after the withdrawal of her Italian rival Angela Carini, Meloni, who said that this confrontation was not on equal terms.

Rachele, daughter of Romano, the dictator’s fourth son, and half-sister of former MEP Alessandra, had also previously shown herself opposed to maintaining the tricolor flame, one of the emblems ofThe Italian Social Movement, heir to his grandfather’s fascist party, as a symbol of FdI.

Last June there was talk of his candidacy for the European elections, which ultimately did not materialize by his own decision. He then assured, in the Corriere dell, that although she was proud of her last name because of her father, a prominent jazz musician, “they would only have talked about my name and they would have said: ‘ Meloni nominates the Duce’s granddaughter as a candidate”