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They are the faces of the new Italian legislature. Friday, October 14, Lorenzo Fontana, 42, elected from Verona (North) and close to Matteo Salvini (League, extreme right), was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies. A consecration for this downside of the party, a traditionalist Catholic, known for its opposition to homosexual marriage and its proximity to Russia. In 2019, he explained wanted to make the league “a hinge between Trump and Putin”. The election of Fontana aroused strong protests on the benches of the opposition. Several deputies of the Democratic Party (PD, Central left) have deployed a banned banner of this sentence: “No to a homophobic and pro-Puttine president.” “The choice of the Chamber of Deputies still keeps Italy of the Heart a little more from Europe “, deplored Enrico Letta, secretary general of the PD outside the hemicycle.
Lorenzo Fontana symbolizes the institutional anchoring of the radical right in Italy, alongside Ignazio La Russa, elected, Thursday, at the head of the Senate. The latter, old backpacker of Italian politics, already vice-president of the upper chamber under the previous legislature, is the co-founder of Fratelli d’Italia with Giorgia Meloni, at the head of the far-right coalition after her victory in the elections legislative elections of September 25. Mr. Russa was also Minister of Defense of Silvio Berlusconi, from 2008 to 2011. He who militated in his youth with the Italian Social Movement (MSI) never hid his nostalgia in Mussolini. In a video dating from 2018, emerged in recent days on social networks, we see him showing a journalist his collection of duce figurines.
Irony of the political situation in Italy, the session on Thursday was chaired by the senator for life Liliana Segre, former survivor of Auschwitz, who had asked Giorgia Meloni to remove the flame of the symbol of Frattelli d’Italia. “It is impossible for me not to feel a kind of vertigo by reminding me that the same little girl who, in 1938, was forced by the racial laws to leave the office of her empty primary school is now found by a strange fate At the Senate’s most prestigious office! “Explained Liliana Segre with emotion, very applauded.
But, in addition to the postfascist profile of Ignazio La Russa, it is the way in which he was elected who will have marked this school year. His appointment is, in fact, the result of a drama. With a majority of 115 seats out of the 200 senators, the voices of elected officials from the coalition of the lines (FDI, League and Forza Italia) should have made the election of the Russa a simple formality. But, to everyone’s surprise, the group forza Italia, of Silvio Berlusconi, abstained, with the exception of the former president of the Council – who returned to the Senate after nine years of absence – and the president Leaving the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Casellati. Ignazio La Russa was finally elected thanks to the contribution of 17 votes from the opposition.
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