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A programmatic speech that lasted about 70 minutes, in which the word “Italy” resounded loudly, used 30 times, followed by the term “nation” (11 times, with the addition of the adjective “national”) and by “democracy” ( 9). An intervention in which he held great weight history. That of the women and men who have made the country great, and that of the evils from which the leader has distanced herself. “In spite of what has been argued instrumentally, I have never felt sympathy or closeness towards undemocratic regimes. For no regime, including fascismIs one of the passages pronounced by the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the House to ask the government for confidence. The leader – therefore – reiterated clearly its distance from the regime of Benito Mussolini. The leader of the Brothers of Italy, who began her career in the Alleanza Nazionale youth academy, remarked how racial laws against Jews, approved by Mussolini’s regime, “are the lowest point” in Italian history. The racial laws of ’38 were born – however, we must not forget – from a racist vision that Mussolini expressed in 1920 (in a speech given in Pola, full of hatred towards the Slavic population) and which recurred towards the populations of Africa in the years of colonialism (here to deepen the history of the Manifesto of the race, published in Il Giornale d’Italia of 14 July 1938). For the president of the Jewish community of Rome, Ruth Dureghello, that of Meloni is an “appreciable and significant” condemnation of the fascist ideology, “very current and relevant”.

The previous

Today in the Chamber is not the only distancing of the leader: already in August, in a video in three foreign languages ​​- English, French and Spanish – she had condemned, for the first time and unambiguously, fascism, dictatorship and racial laws. A response – in the middle of the election campaign – to the international press and to the articles in which his “possible” victory was described “as a danger to democracy, to Italian, European and international stability”, “narrative, inspired and fueled by the left “. An “operation truth” to distance itself from the attempt – not only internal – to prevent it from moving forward towards Palazzo Chigi. “The Italian right has consigned fascism to history for decades now, unambiguously condemning the suppression of democracy and the infamous laws against Jews,” the position expressed by the leader.

“The succession of horrors”

In his speech to the House to ask for confidence, Meloni then referred to totalitarianisms of the twentieth century, which “have torn the whole of Europe, not just Italy, for more than half a century, in a succession of horrors that has swept over most of the European states”. The Prime Minister claimed the work done by the political community from which he comes to “a full and conscious historicization of the twentieth century”, to combat any form of racism, anti-Semitism, political violence, discrimination.

The seventies

What is never mentioned, however, is the term “Resistance” (despite references to Tina Anselmipartisan and first woman to become a minister, e Nilde Iotti, partisan, among the twenty-one women participating in the Constituent Assembly in 1946, and the first woman to preside over the Chamber of Deputies). Instead, the leader’s gaze shifts to political violence of the 1970s and on the “dark years” in which, in the name of militant anti-fascism, “innocent boys were killed with a wrench.” A season that removed “a national pacification that the Italian democratic right, more than any other, has always hoped for”. A clear reference to the story of Sergio Ramelli, the 18-year-old militant of the Youth Front, who died on April 29, 1975 in Milan, after being attacked with a wrench by members of Avanguardia Operaia on the evening of March 13, 1975 (and died 47 days after the ambush, the April 29, in a bed of the Maggiore Hospital). On 29 April 2022, for the first time, Meloni was also present at the commemoration in Milan. Ramelli (together with Commissioner Luigi Calabresi and Fausto and Iaio) was also remembered by the new president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russain his inauguration speech: “I cannot fail to recall the dramatic season of violence, political terrorism and the many children, of all political hues, who lost their lives only because they believed in ideals, or sometimes only because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time: students, servants of the state, journalists, entrepreneurs, politicians ».