Definitely a decision that will leave a debate. The Grosseto city council decided to approve an election held on April 16, 2018, and to name three streets: one after Giorgio Almirante, the founder of the Italian Social Movement (and former CSR militant), one after Enrico Berlinguer, the historical secretary of the Italian Communist Party. and another to “national pacification”.
The vote on the centre-right majority’s motion had 17 votes in favor and 11 against (the entire minority, in addition to former councilor Giacomo Cerboni, who is now a Lega shareholder) and a member of parliament who stood up at the time. He voted and left the class. To avoid the lack of a majority (16 councilors), the motion was debated at the beginning of the assembly, not at the end. Now for final approval, we will now have to wait for the governor’s approval.
Antonfrancesco Vivarelli Colonna, the elected mayor of the Brothers of Italy, commented, “I wanted to reintroduce the issue in the Council through the city councilors, who represent the people of our Republic and to whom I thank.” The approval is the approval of a broader project whose sole purpose is to trigger a path of peace, but while it still seems distant and difficult to implement for some, the Municipality of Grosseto still has a mandate to move forward. as a model that can be replicated not only at the local level, but also at the national level in the future”.
Strong reactions from the opposition and civil society
The opposition’s protest was fierce and obvious: during the ratifications, the councilors stood up and showed photocopies of the “strays” ban signed in 1944 by Minister Mezzosoma and Giorgio Almirante. We are talking about an anti-partisan call that reaffirms the death penalty for young people who do not respond to the call to take up arms in the republican army.
After the armistice of September 8, Giorgio Almirante joined the Italian Social Republic and in 1944 was appointed head of the cabinet of the ministry of popular culture headed by Fernando Mezzasoma. Not just. From 1938 to 1942, Almirante was the editor-in-chief of the anti-Semitic and racist magazine The Defense of the Race, which published the ‘Manifesto of the Race’ in 1938 and the ‘Manifesto of the Race’ in 1938. first issue In 1947 the founder of MSI was found guilty of collaborating with the invading Nazi troops.
Evidence fueling the protest of Anpi singing “Bella Ciao” under the City’s City Council. Instead, he entrusts the “Grosseto Città Aperta” councilor and group leader, Carlo De Martis, to social irony.
“For mayor Vivarelli, Berlinguer and Almirante were “friends”, the last frontier of historical revisionism. But we can bet that the discussion will not be limited to Grosseto.
Source: Today IT

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