The granddaughter of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who until now was a member of the far-right party Brothers of Italy (FdI), Rachele, left the Prime Minister’s party, Giorgia Meloni, become conservative Forza Italymore in line with its “moderate and centrist sensitivity.”
The councilor who obtained the most votes in the Rome City Council with the FdI considers that the formation of Meloni has too extreme positions especially on civil rights and feels more comfortable in the party founded by Silvio Berlusconi and which is now headed by the Vice-President of the Executive and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, as the newspaper revealed this Thursday Republic.
“I thank FdI for believing in me and supporting me in 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 sensibility” Mussolini said.
The granddaughter of Duce elected twice councilor in the municipal elections in Rome, In the latter, as the most voted, she maintains divergences with the ultras of Meloni, as happened last August with the controversy surrounding the intersexual character of the Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and which she described as a “smear campaign”, according to the newspaper.
Khleif won gold at the Paris Games and, after her Italian rival Angela Carini withdrew, Meloni said the matchup was not on a level playing field.
Rachele, daughter of Romano, the dictator’s fourth son, and half-sister of former MEP Alessandra, had also opposed in the past the retention of the tricolour flame, one of the emblems of the European Union.the Italian Social Movement, heir to his grandfather’s fascist party, as a symbol of the FdI.
Last June, there was talk of his candidacy for the European elections, which ultimately did not come to fruition due to his own decision. Then he assured, in the Corriere Dell, that even though she was proud of her last name because of her father, a prominent jazz musician, “they would just talk about my name and say, ‘ Meloni presents the Duce’s granddaughter as candidate
