Gianfranco Fini: “Meloni? I don’t inspire you, in Fiuggi I indicated the route. Why did they never ask me to remove the flame from the symbol?”

“Giorgia Meloni it doesn’t need to be inspired. I told the foreign press “that the reality of the Italian right was different from what it was being represented,” that I voted for her and I confirm it “. Gianfranco Fini returning to tv a Half an hour more. “I can say that there were those who opened a route” and then it was the turn of others, “the younger ones, to follow it”. Melons and Ignazio La Russa? “They were right and I was wrong.” What does it mean? That the current head of the government and the president of the Senate “do not follow me when I am ousted” from the PDL “and give life to the house of the right: I did not believe it”. And then: “When FdI was born there was total skepticism on the right, I was the first to say: where are they going to me?”. But it is on civil rights and the use of anti-Covid masks that the founder of An, former speaker of the Chamber, does not spare the new prime minister – whom he prefers to call “the” premier – insisting on the need to leave the classrooms free.

The broadside on rights and Covid

“The government would do better not to deal with issues such as civil rights and to let Parliament deal with it. It is the advice that Fini provides to Meloni, who recalls that civil rights is” a delicate matter, especially when it comes to it acts on the family and on homosexual rights. The attitude of the institutions must be secular. In Italy, public opinion has always been divided “, underlines the former third position of the state. Who then provides another piece of advice:” Anti-Covid masks remain mandatory in hospitals “.

Fini, La Russa and the controversy on April 25th

In the 90s “the anti-fascist vigilance was over”, remembers Fini, retracing some facts between ’95 and ’99. In 1995 Massimo D’Alema he became president of the bicameral commission and there was talk of the Fini-D’Alema axis, the last post-communist secretary and the last post-fascist “. In 1996”Luciano Violante is elected president of the Chamber, the National Alliance applauds him sincerely when he says that to make liberation a unitary, shared moment, it was necessary to ‘look at yesterday’s vanquished’, and pay attention to verbs, he does not say understand “. Finally he says that in ’99, before the election of Carlo Azeglio Ciampi to the presidency of the Republic “I do not reveal a secret, I met confidentially the secretary of the DS Walter Veltroniwe reasoned and found that Ciampi’s name was the one that could guarantee “everyone.

The threats to La Russa

“The title (of the Press, ed) on La Russa – says Fini – is forced. La Russa did not say ‘I am not celebrating this April 25th’ but replies ‘it depends, of course I will not go to the parades’ because, I heard him again this morning, he would risk finding himself in the company of those young men who in the name of anti-fascism threatened him with death. Anti-fascism also has anti-democratic positions “.

The left and the “switch of anti-fascism”

“The Italian left cannot turn on the anti-fascism switch” in an instrumental way, “they demand from the left the recognition of anti-fascism as a value.
The answer can only be yes, because we recognized him in Fiuggi “, continues Fini.” The left must be clear: anti-fascism must be a shared value “but” it also has anti-democratic positions “, observes the former president of Camera recalling, for example, the violent attacks in La Russa. And he continues: “Shared anti-fascism should correspond to shared patriotism. If the left asks the right to be linear and to accept anti-fascism, it should accept in an equally linear way that among the anti-fascists there are also those who also have anti-democratic positions “. Possibly, he adds,” that on the left we have not yet meditated on the lesson of Bobbio, on the fact that homeland and nation are not words of the extreme right but are mentioned several times in the Constitution “.

Fiuggi “was a passage”

“Fiuggi is the expression of a passage: we leave the father’s house with the certainty of not returning. I don’t know if Meloni was there, but there was the secretary of his section, Rampelli, who told me that they recognized each other. in that turning point: we wrote that anti-fascism had been essential for the return of the democratic values ​​that Fascimso had oppressed “, explains Fini. “In 1995, with this declaration of ours, the left acknowledged that it could not continue to say that fascism was back. Fiuggi put an end to a season. Are they asking from the left to recognize anti-fascism as a value? Fiuggi and Giorgia Meloni have never dissociated “.

An, FdI and the flame in the symbol

“The symbol of FdI – says Fini – is not that of the Social Movement but that of the National Alliance. The word Msi which was the continuity (with fascism, ed) is gone, it has been filed with Fiuggi “, he concluded.

The Democratic Party and “the elaboration of mourning”

“If there is anyone – declares Fini – who thinks that Meloni and La Russa are on vacation and not celebrating the resistance with official demonstrations” they do so in an “instrumental way: this controversy” on April 25 is “instrumental and I understand it too. “, because” the Democratic Party is still mourning, perhaps because the defeat was greater than the “expected” size, “perhaps because they underestimated the opponent”.

Left “gray, a little soul”

“The left is always basically gray, I hope Enrico Letta do not be offended. “Advice to the Democratic Party?” A little verve, a little soul, a flag to be raised that is not the democracy that is everyone’s flag. Return to inflame hearts “, she added.

The PDL “an unforgivable mistake”

“Creating the PDL was a huge mistake that I do not forgive myself,” says Fini guest on TV Lucia Annunziata.

Berlusconi “has lost the scepter”

Silvio Berlusconi noted “that it is no longer the dominusthat somehow the sovereign lost the scepter “to the advantage of” a woman who since she was a girl has chewed bread and politics, “said Fini. The leader of Fi, acknowledged the founder of An,” is not a irresponsible, just look at the Forza Italia ministers, I think of Antonio Tajaniwhich give ample guarantee of continuity in government action “.

“The restlessness” by Salvini

Matteo Salvini he is a “pragmatic” politician. Restless? “How can you not be restless when so many votes are lost. Salvini feels the responsibility” of having had the party’s trust after the elections, “the vote was a shock. The unrest leads him to raise the flags of identity”.