How to stop being a fascist? Alessandro Giuli, 49 years old, brilliant journalist and new head of the culture portfolio in the Meloni government, says that “detoxified” for a long time of this slow poison, long before his tall stature took over, on September 6, the Palazzo del Collegio Romano. “We must take note of this. The alternation brought to power national-conservative cultural families that were not sufficiently represented… But my mission will be to expose them without giving up dialogue with all the creative forces of all political denominations,” he promises.
Between the enormous walls of the ministerial office, with a pearlescent cigarette holder in his hand, the man defines himself as “libertarian.” The previous occupant of the premises, Gennaro Sangiuliano, had turned the world of culture upside down with his desire to create a “cultural hegemony” on the right, while committing a series of embarrassing blunders. He was forced to resign after a scandal involving his lover. Ironically, some like to say that it won’t be difficult to do better than him. Defender of the “concord”, Alessandro Giuli presents a unique profile.
His suits, made by a faithful Sardinian tailor, and his tie flirtatiously adorned with a silver clip hide a Roman eagle tattooed on his chest. His manicured hands with rings adorned with ancient motifs learned to hit when, in the 90s, the small far-right groups to which this boy from Rome belonged confronted their political opponents in the streets of the capital. Some young opponents who requested anonymity describe him as “picchiador”, of batter.
Roman and radical extreme right
If today he uses a polished vocabulary, sprinkled with strange terms and quotes, with extreme courtesy, he also shouted with the AS Roma ultras in the stands of the Stadio Olimpico. Alessandro Giuli is part of the history of a particular extreme right, Roman and radical, the same one that saw Giorgia Meloni grow politically. falls under the “minority world”, according to the expression dear to this professional activist, a world that she brought with her to power.
A high school student and then a young philosophy student, he measured himself against this violence while laying the foundations of a culture, both classical and heterodox, that later flourished on the right of Italian public space as his turbulent youth receded. However, without a degree, he decided to conclude his university career, when he was approaching fifty, to obtain the equivalent of a license, a few weeks after his appointment to the position of minister. Before frequenting the palaces of the Republic, Alessandro Giuli nevertheless established himself as one of the figures of the intellectual right, throughout a journalistic career carried out with a certain brilliance.
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