2023-04-26 15:12:19
The parade of resistance fighters during the Liberation Day, in Milan, April 25, 1946. KEYSTONE-FRANCE/GAMMA-RAPHO
STORY – The far right, now in power, criticizes the left for instrumentalizing the fight against fascism.
Rome
Since the year 1946, every April 25, Italy commemorates, with a public holiday, the partisan uprising against the Nazi occupation army on April 25, 1945, and against the fascists who had founded the Republic of Salo . But this feast ofthe liberation of Italian territoryof the foreign occupier, as of the end of twenty years of fascism, is not celebrated by all Italians, especially not by the extreme right, which has never wanted to recognize this anniversary. Starting with Fratelli d’Italia, the party of Giorgia Meloni, in power since last September.
Thus, for several months, many of its elected officials have systematically refused to evoke a celebration which they consider recovered by the left, which, they fear, risks delegitimizing them. The President of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, one of the founders of the party, even affirmed at the end of October: “I will not celebrate April 25…because we are not celebrating a celebration of freedom and democracy, but the preserve…
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