Italian Partisans group ANPI on
Tuesday said everyone agreed on the need for Senate Speaker
Ignazio La Russa to resign after a series of controversial
comments relating to Italy's Fascist past.
"What brings us all together? La Russa's resignation. All
Fascist associations must be disbanded," said ANPI Rome
President Fabrizio De Santis at the end of a Liberation Day
rally in the capital.
The statement appeared to come as an indirect reply to Premier
Giorgia Meloni's earlier call from the pages of Corriere della
Sera newspaper for the national holiday marking Italy's
liberation from Fascism and Nazi occupation to be a moment of
"new-found harmony" after days of political wrangling.
On Monday ANPI urged the premier and leader of right-wing party
Brothers of Italy (FdI) to disassociate herself from Fascism
after allegedly failing to do so since leading the right to
power in Italy in September 2022.
The call came against the backdrop of ongoing controversy
involving La Russa, a top FdI exponent, in relation to his
criticism of a Partisan attack in Rome that triggered the
Ardeatine Caves reprisal massacre, a statement on Thursday that
Italy's postwar Constitution does not contain the word
'antifascism' and his decision to spend most of Liberation Day
commemorating anti-Communist hero Jan Palach in Prague instead
of visiting Nazi atrocity sites in Italy.
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