In an interview given to the weekly supplement 7 from the centrist daily Il Corriere Della Serathe head of government, Giorgia Meloni, declared that she was not considering removing the tricolor flame from the logo of the Fratelli d’Italia party, which she founded in 2012 and which won the greatest number of votes in the legislative elections of September 2022.
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With our correspondent in Rome, Anne Le Nir
“ I think removing the flame from the symbol was never on the agenda »: this is the answer from Giorgia Meloni to a question that has been debated for years. In 2022, the leader of Fratelli d’Italia sent a video to the foreign press in which she affirmed that “ the Italian right relegated fascism to history and condemned the deprivation of democracy and racial laws », established by Benito Mussolini in 1938.
But the fact is that the tricolor flame is an icon inherited from the Italian Social Movement (MSI), created in 1946 by former representatives of the fascist regime and which was the main far-right party for almost 50 years in Italy.
However, the Prime Minister began activism at the age of 15 in the MSI youth movement, Il Fronte della Gioventù, dissolved in 1996 and replaced, in 2014, by Gioventù Nazionale, the youth organization of Fratelli d’ Italy. Keeping the flame is therefore equivalent to not denying these roots.
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