La Russa to the young people of Fdi: “The flame in the heart, this is the important thing”

«The flame in the heart, that’s the important thing». In the symbol, however, who knows. The president of the Senate Ignatius LaRussa is greeted with an ovation at the opening of Fenix, the youth party of the Brothers of Italy, in Rome, and he cannot guarantee those who will have to build the future of the party that the flame, which belonged to the Social Movement and then to the Alleanza national, will remain in the FdI symbol.

It is as if for the president of the Senate, in the evolution that the party is experiencing, from an opposition force to a government force, there is an urgent need for a new narrative. Starting with the close of the season of Silvio Berlusconi: «This center-right is not Berlusconi’s legacy, because he wanted a center-right with Berlusconi traction and instead this one is with Giorgia Meloni – underlines La Russa -. We can say that this center-right is the son of Berlusconi, but the children, as often happens, then take different paths from that of the father”. The merit of the Cav, continues La Russa, “was not that of clearing us, but of allowing the Italians to clear us”. And so now, he adds, “the left is dying to death because someone with our history becomes president of the Senate”. In this evolution, there is a natural fear of perverting oneself, but «Giorgia Meloni has not changed», assures La Russa. «She is the same as always. When you go to government, however, the objectives must be achieved gradually.

To listen to him, a hundred young and old. Someone prefers ping pong or table football, set up in the park around the main structure, someone else takes their children to play. There is even an inflatable in military green camouflage, next to stalls and stalls selling flyers overflowing with slogans, such as those on T-shirts, from «Loyalty with love. Value with honor» to the Latin quotations so dear to the right: «Sit romana potens, Itala virtute propago». And then the books on the murder of the militant of the Youth Front, Francesco Cecchin, on the missino Beppe Niccolai, “Stormi in volo sull’oceano”, written by the fascist leader Italo Balbo, and biographies of the president of the National Fascist Party, Augusto Turati. And strictly Italian music, of course: from Lucio Battisti to Rino Gaetano, from Lucio Dalla to Pino Daniele.

After the interview with La Russa it is the Minister for the Family’s turn Eugenia Rockella, who once again prefers to use rough tones to talk about the birth rate. Roccella makes it a question of geographical origin. “We are against uncontrolled immigration. Immigration is a phenomenon that must be governed – she says – and one cannot think of outsourcing to third countries the vitality that is gained through having children ». With the afterthought, evidently, that children born in Italy to immigrants cannot be considered Italian.