ANPI slams Salvini for presenting book April 25

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 22 - Italian Partisans Association ANPI slammed Deputy Premier, Transport Minister and rightwing League party leader Matteo Salvini for choosing to present his new book on the April 25 Liberation Day holiday saying "a significant part of this government does not recognise April 25".
    ANPI Milan Chair Primo Minelli said Salvini's decision to present the book in Milan on Thursday "is not recognising this holiday, nothing else".
    Minelli also said Premier Giorgia Meloni appeared to have trouble describing herself as an antifascist while her brother in law, Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, had stressed "the violence of antifascism".
    Talking about Meloni's apparent reluctance to define herself as anti-fascist, as she has repeatedly been urged by the opposition, Minelli also noted that her Borthers of Italy (FdI) party has also refused to remove the neo-fascist flame symbol from its logo, representing the flame that burns on Mussolini's tomb.
    "I can't torture her (to get her to say she's an antifascist).
    "And somone should explain to Italians the meaning of that flame that is there inside the symbol of a party, out of intellectual honesty, which recalls the one on Mussolini's tomb". (ANSA).