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RIC in-haus: Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Italian Fascism in 2023

Radicals in Conversation

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Fratelli Ditalia: A History of the MSI

Fratelli Ditalia was founded in 2012, a split from the joint party that had been created with Berlusconi. Almost all of its leaders are former MSI leaders even now. They have a kind of weird relationship with what Fini did and they're much less likely to apologize for the past or say we used to be neo-fascist but now we're anti-fascist. In the 2013 general election the first time FratelliDitalia stood they got under 2% of the votes. But even in the 2018 general election Fratelliditalia got 4%. So they're also competing with very small and further rights, more explicitly fascist groups.

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