Alessandra Mussolini

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Alessandra Mussolini (2013)

Alessandra Mussolini (born December 30, 1962 in Rome ) is an Italian politician . The granddaughter of Benito Mussolini was the chairwoman of the alternative party alliance from 2003 to 2006 , for which she was also a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 . From January to November 2007 she was a member of the newly founded European parliamentary group “ Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty ”. For the center-right party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL) she held a seat in the Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013 , and from 2013 to 2014 she was a member of the other chamber of the Italian Parliament, the Senate, for Forza Italia . From 2014 to 2019 she was again a member of the European Parliament. There she was a member of the Group of the European People's Party .

Life

Alessandra Mussolini in 1994

Private

Alessandra Mussolini is the daughter of Anna Maria Villani Scicolone (* 1938) and the jazz musician Romano Mussolini . Her grandfather is the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini , the actress Sophia Loren is her aunt.

She has been married since October 28, 1989 and has three children.

Careers in the entertainment industry

After studying medicine, she tried to gain a foothold as an actress and from 1972 had several roles in cinema and TV productions. Her career was promoted by her aunt Sophia Loren, who starred with her in the films Die Sünde (Bianco, rosso e ...) (1972), A special day (1977), A bit blond (Qualcosa di biondo) (1984) and Saturday, Sunday, Monday (Sabato, domenica e lunedì) (1990). After participating in the Israeli action film Phantom Fighters (1990), she ended her unsuccessful acting career.

Mussolini also released the single Love is Love and the album Amore in 1982 and was photographed in a low-cut, translucent top in August 1983 for the cover of Italian Playboy .

Political career

In 1992, Alessandra Mussolini became a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) in the Naples constituency , where she was also a member of the board. In 1995 the national conservative Alleanza Nazionale emerged from the MSI under the same leadership . With the re-establishment, the chairman Gianfranco Fini also wanted to ban “ Duce nostalgia”. The Duce's granddaughter regarded this with suspicion.

In 1996 there were serious differences with Fini, which led her to leave the party, which she later withdrew. The reason for the argument was Fini's distancing from some aspects of fascism.

In 2002 there were renewed differences, in which she accused Fini of steering the party, which at that time was part of Silvio Berlusconi's alliance Casa delle Libertà, under government responsibility, more and more in temperate waters. She lost that argument too, but still remained a member of the Italian Parliament. When Fini visited Israel at the end of 2003 to reshape the image of the party and condemned fascism there with reference to the anti-Semitic Italian race laws of 1938 and the Holocaust as "part of absolute evil", the break finally came, whereupon she left the party.

With several fascist hardliners, she then founded the right-wing extremist Libertà di Azione (today: Azione Sociale ). For the elections to the European Parliament she led them into a coalition called “Alternativa sociale: Lista Mussolini”. This coalition included the Azione Sociale, the Fronte Sociale Nazionale , Fiamma Tricolore and Forza Nuova . In political statements and in its election campaigns, she repeatedly leans directly on the ideology of fascism . In 2004 it made it into the European Parliament.

On November 17, 2004 she was visited by the party leader of the NPD , Udo Voigt , in the European Parliament in Strasbourg . At this meeting she assured him of her support for “national German concerns” in the European Parliament. As an EU parliamentarian, in addition to working with the NPD, she also expanded contacts with the FPÖ . On the occasion of the scandal involving Paolo Di Canio , the captain of Lazio Rome , because of a "Roman greeting" (outstretched right arm) in May 2005, Mussolini said she was "deeply touched" and offered him a post in her party. In the EU Parliament she was active in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs , deputy in the Development Committee , member of the delegation for relations with the Mashrek countries and member of the delegation in the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.

In February 2006 she announced her candidacy for the office of mayor of Rome. During the election campaign for the parliamentary elections in the same year, she again openly confessed to being a fascist and attracted attention several times through violent arguments with her opponents. Due to the election results (approx. 0.66 percent of the vote), your party did not make it into parliament.

With the merging of her Azione Sociale party in the Popolo della Libertà party, which was newly founded in March 2009 , Alessandra Mussolini was reunited with Fini in one party, until that party in August 2010 became the faction and later the independent party Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia (Future and Freedom for Italy). From 2014 to July 1, 2019, she was again a member of the European Parliament ( European People's Party ). For Forza Italia she was the list leader in the municipal council elections in Rome in June 2016. In 2018 she resigned from Forza Italia.

Political positions

In terms of content, Alessandra Mussolini's positions are based on the system of fascism under the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini , which she often praises. As a reason for the cooperation with the alliance under Berlusconi, she named in 2006 as unanimous demands the relaxation of protection against dismissal and stricter immigration laws. She sees herself as conservative in terms of values and criticizes Muslims and gays, with a well-known quote from her being “better fascist than gay”. According to his own statements, Mussolini would like to address voters from the middle and lower classes more than Berlusconi. Accordingly, she advertises in public, for example, that pregnant women did not have to work at the time of fascism, and calls for the increased use of soldiers in Italy on the grounds that this would prevent the abuse of women.

literature

Web links

Commons : Alessandra Mussolini  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography entry Alessandra MUSSOLINI . European Parliament. Retrieved July 3, 2014.
  2. ↑ PLAYBOY Italy Covers of 1983 . pbcovers.com. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  3. ↑ Fini in Israele "Il fascismo fu parte del male assoluto"
  4. ^ L'Espresso, accessed January 22, 2012
  5. ↑ a b c Interview with Alessandra Mussolini. In: Date , February 1, 2006 ( Memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ Right friends . In: Die Zeit , No. 13/2006
  7. ↑ Mussolini Renaissance in Italy . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 30, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Mussolini, Alessandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian neo-fascist politician (Forza Italia), member of the Camera dei deputati, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , Italy