REPORT – Isabella Rauti, under the label Fratelli d’Italia, bet on development issues while Emanuele Fiano, from the Democratic Party, wanted to focus on memoirs. The first won the ballot.
Special Envoy to Sesto San Giovanni
On the right, Isabella Rauti, daughter of Pino Rauti, famous founder of New Order and former secretary of the neo-fascist party the Italian Social Movement, under the label Fratelli d’Italia (FdI). On the left, the democrat Emanuele Fiano, son of Nedo Fiano, a survivor of the Auschwitz camps, who in Italy embodies the fight against oblivion and racism.
The electoral battle which opposed, on September 25 last for a seat of senator, two heirs of this “past that does not pass” had an all the more symbolic value as it took place in the district of Sesto San Giovanni, the cradle, between 1943 and 1945, of resistance to Nazism.
The “good versus evil”
This working-class commune took from it the nickname of “Italian Stalingrad”, which it honored by remaining for 70 years a red island in a region on the right, Lombardy. This island had certainly already swung to the right during the municipal elections of 2017, won by Roberto Di Stefano, who presented himself as a moderate, and…
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