he new mayor of Rome, a former neo-fascist, has praised Benito Mussolini as an inspired architect who modernised Italy.
The election of Gianni Alemanno, 50, has prompted fears of a fascist revival because he once led the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). His arrival at the city hall was celebrated by a crowd giving the fascist salute and chanting, “Duce! Duce!” – the title used by Mussolini, who ruled Italy between 1922-43.
Speaking to The Sunday Times in his office overlooking the Forum, Alemanno was at pains to deny in his first interview with a foreign newspaper that he was “a fascist or an ex-fascist or a postfascist”.
A wiry, energetic figure, he explained: “The left describes me as a bogeyman, a nasty Blackshirt, but that’s a complete lie.
“People calling me ‘Duce’ makes me laugh. I’m not at all fascist and I think that today the word belongs to the history books. I’ve grown to hate all forms of totalitarianism, whether of the left or of the right. More...
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