Posted on 10/07/2021 5:50:08 PM PDT by bitt
The granddaughter of Benito Mussolini won the highest number of votes in elections for Rome’s city council as support for Brothers of Italy, the far-right party to which she belongs, edged up in northern cities held by the left.
Rachele Mussolini secured more than 8,200 votes in the municipal elections on Sunday and Monday, an increase on the 657 received when she entered the council on her first mandate in 2016.
She said her success in Rome is down to hard work and not her surname. “I learned to live with my surname since I was a child,” she told La Repubblica. “At school they used to point at me, but then Rachele emerged and the person prevails over a surname, however burdensome that surname is. I have many friends on the left and I am certain that one of them voted for me.”
Rachele is named after the fascist dictator’s first wife and is the daughter of the late jazz musician, Romano Mussolini.
Before becoming a councillor in 2016, she said she was only asked for interviews because of her family name. “But during my last term they started asking about the initiatives I’ve promoted. I’ve worked hard.”
She said she had formed excellent relationships with colleagues from the centre-left Democratic party within the council: “Politics is one thing, human relationships are another.”
Mussolini refrained from discussing fascism. “To deal with this topic we’d need to talk until tomorrow morning. I prefer to talk about Rome,” she said.
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Cue pose of head in slight upright 45 degree position to the right overseeing a battalion of troops.
Hopefully builds better tanks
History is a hoot.
The world is going to Hell in a handbasket, what a great time for an Italian politician named Mussoline!
Mussolini was an extreme leftist. interesting they said she won the “far-right party” She is the opposite of her grandfather
Her party, Brothers of Italy, seems to have pretty decent policies — Italy first, anti-immigrant, skeptical on EU, etc. Of course, the party is described with all the scary terms — “far right”, “fascist”, “neo-fascist”. But that just means they aren’t Communists.
Will the trains run on time now?
-PJ
“Hopefully builds better tanks.”
And boots that don’t retreat.
.....si, anda she gonna make da trains run on time, too....!!!
So does this mean the trains will run on time again?
Benito was a hard-core Socialist.
Fact.
Atheist, and promoted “social justice” and redistribution of wealth. Just a cursory glance at his quotes shows his rabid leftism.
Right wing in Europe is not the same thing as in the US. The US right is its own thing in global terms. Russell Kirk gets deep into that in his “The Conservative Mind” - highly recommended. Franco imposed a welfare state in Spain, despite running the furthest-right government in Europe for forty years. And that government was far more traditionalist than fascist, being run in effect by activists of Opus Dei (a fundamentalist Catholic lay order).
They called themselves left-wing originally. Goebbels called his party “the German Left”. Describing them as “right wing” is a Big Lie tactic.
I bet she can get the trains to run on time.
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