A great-grandson of the Duce wants to Parliament for the post-fascist party, Fratelli d’italia into the EU. About the Italian dictator, he says: ‘ve done a lot of Positive and some of the errors committed.

By Oliver Meiler, Rome Oliver Meiler

Oliver Meiler was born in Zurich and studied in Geneva, political science and International relations. Since 1998 he has been a correspondent, first in Italy for the Tages-Anzeiger and the Berliner Zeitung, in South-East Asia for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and later in France, Spain and, since 2015, in Italy. He is married and has two sons.

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there it is again, the mighty M. As a Trident is, it is in the history of the country, still. The M of Mussolini. It is sweet poison secretes.

Fratelli d’italia, a post-fascist party with a keen sense for the subliminal and, more recently, not so repressed impulses in a part of the population, has for the European elections, a descendant of the Duce “excavated”, as the Corriere della Sera describes. A real Mussolini, the fourth Generation. Great-grandson of Benito Mussolini. Grandson of …