Italy’s September election is bringing more and more Benito Mussolini sympathizers to power. On October 13, Italy’s majority right-wing parliament elected Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa as its president of the senate. The next day, Lorenzo Fontana was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Italy’s Parliament.
La Russa and Fontana constitutionally hold the two highest offices in the republic behind the president, but not without criticism. “Italy’s parliamentary chambers will in future be led by an avowed post-fascist and a Putin admirer,” Handelsblatt wrote. Italy has entered a dangerous new era.
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