Fiamma Tricolore


Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore

Party executive	Attilio Carelli (Segretario)

founding	March 3, 1995 (emerged from: Movimento Sociale Italiano )
ideology	neo-fascist , nationalist
European party	AENM (since 2009)

MPs	0/630
Senators	0/315
MEPs	0/76

Headquarters	Italy Roma , via Roccaporena, 51
Website	www.fiammatricolore.com

The Fiamma Tricolore (actually Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore , MSFT , German: Social Movement - Dreifarbige ( Tricolor ) Flame ) is a neo-fascist party in Italy that was founded in 1995 by Pino Rauti .

origin

Pino Rauti was the leader of the “fascist movement” wing of the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano party , which referred to the anti-capitalist and anti-bourgeois form of fascism in its early years up to about 1924 and during the Republic of Salò (1943-45). In January 1995 he did not want to support the “turn of Fiuggi ” (svolta di Fiuggi) , when Gianfranco Fini founded the more moderate national conservative Alleanza Nazionale out of the MSI .

He called this "denial of his own history" and founded the Fiamma Tricolore party, which ties in with the neo-fascist tradition of the MSI. He was chairman from January 1995 to February 2002. Rauti's daughter Isabella also joined the FT, although she was married to Gianni Alemanno , a leading politician in the Alleanza Nazionale. At times, the couple also separated privately.

The name Fiamma Tricolore goes back to the logo of the former MSI, which showed a flame in the Italian national colors green, white and red. This can also be seen in the MSFT logo.

history

In the 1996 Senate election , the party achieved its best result to date with 2.3% and entered the Senate with one representative - Luigi Caruso. In the simultaneous election to the House of Representatives, however, the party missed out with 0.9%. In the 1999 European elections , the Fiamma Tricolore received 1.6% of the vote and a seat that was taken by Roberto Felice Bigliardo . However, he joined the Alleanza Nazionale in 2001. For the 2001 parliamentary elections , MSFT took part in the center-right alliance Casa delle Libertà (CdL) led by Silvio Berlusconi . In the constituency of Avola in Sicily, Caruso was nominated and re-elected as a candidate for the CdL, which meant that the MSFT was still represented in parliament despite a nationwide vote of only 1%.

From February 2002 Luca Romagnoli was chairman of the Fiamma Tricolore. He too had broken away from his former companion Gianfranco Fini when the chairman of the Alleanza Nazionale distanced himself from fascism. “You can't just say, like Fini, that fascism was the absolute evil,” said Romagnoli. When asked about the existence of the gas chambers in Auschwitz, he replied: “I don't have the means to confirm or deny that.” Under Romagnoli, the Fiamma Tricolore was even more radical than under Rauti and maintained contacts with the right-wing extremist Ultras of Hellas Verona and the Veneto Fronte Skinheads .

Pino Rauti was excluded from the Fiamma Tricolore in 2003 and in May 2004 became chairman of the Movimento Idea Sociale (MIS), which he and some supporters founded and which split off from Fiamma. Isabella Rauti, however, switched to Alleanza Nazionale. In March 2005 Senator Caruso also joined the MIS, whereby the Fiamma Tricolore lost its representation in the national parliament.

In the 2004 European elections , MSFT returned to the European Parliament with a representative - Romagnoli - with 0.7% of the vote . This belonged to the right-wing extremist group Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty , which existed from January to November 2007, and was also a member of the group's executive committee. For the parliamentary elections in 2006 Fiamma Tricolore was again part of Berlusconi's center-right alliance Casa delle Libertà, but this time received no seats with 0.6% of the vote. This time she was competing with the neo-fascist Alternativa Sociale by Alessandra Mussolini .

In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , the party joined forces with La Destra , a right-wing split from Alleanza Nazionale, founded in July 2007 , on a list. This received 2.4% of the votes, which is a lot compared to the other results of the MSFT, but was not enough to overcome the entry hurdle in one of the two parliamentary chambers. The alliance with La Destra broke again after the election. In the 2009 European elections , Romagnoli failed to be re-elected. Since then, the party has not been represented in a national parliament.

Fiamma Tricolore has been a member of the Alliance of European National Movements (AEMN) since 2009 , in which the French Front National , the Hungarian Jobbik and the British National Party were initially involved. However, these have since been eliminated, so that the alliance has lost a lot of its importance.

In November 2013, party leader Romagnoli signed the call to found a Movimento per Alleanza Nazionale on behalf of MSFT together with representatives from La Destra, Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia , Adriana Poli Bortone and smaller right-wing groups . However, this was not agreed with the rest of the party. Romagnoli was deposed as party leader and expelled. He then founded the Destra Sociale party . Attilio Carelli became the new leader of MSFT. For the 2018 parliamentary elections , Fiamma Tricolore ran in alliance with the also right-wing extremist Forza Nuova under the list name Italia agli Italiani ("Italy for the Italians") and received 0.4% of the vote.

The party's youth organization is Gioventù della Fiamma (“Youth of the Flame”). The Blocco Studentesco (student block ) is a student association that was close to the party until 2008, but has moved closer to the CasaPound after an internal dispute .

ideology

“The Fiamma Tricolore is a movement that was born to emphasize its own ideal closeness to the social republic and its fighters. A republic on whose side we would certainly have fought, if only fate had allowed us to be born in those years. And we would certainly have fought to win because for us the political synthesis arose from the thinking of Benito Mussolini , for us it is the only political, economic and spiritual system that has the freedom and social justice that is denied to Italians today , can bring. The Italians and the whole world. [...] [We] start our fight for a better tomorrow, embodying the ideals of Alessandro Pavolini's black shirts ”

- Excerpt from the self-presentation

Web links

Party website (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ Markus K. Grimm: The problematic reinvention of the Italian right. The Alleanza Nazionale and its way to the center. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 96.
↑ Markus K. Grimm: The problematic reinvention of the Italian right. The Alleanza Nazionale and its way to the center. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 284.
↑ ^a ^b Birgit Schönau: Right friends. In: Die Zeit , No. 13/2006, March 23, 2006.
↑ ^a ^b Markus K. Grimm: The problematic reinvention of the Italian right. The Alleanza Nazionale and its way to the center. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 285.
^ Fiamma Tricolore Roma

[1] Markus K. Grimm: The problematic reinvention of the Italian right. The Alleanza Nazionale and its way to the center. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 96.

[2] Markus K. Grimm: The problematic reinvention of the Italian right. The Alleanza Nazionale and its way to the center. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 284.

[Zeit_230306-3] Birgit Schönau: Right friends. In: Die Zeit , No. 13/2006, March 23, 2006.

[Grimm16_285-4] Markus K. Grimm: The problematic reinvention of the Italian right. The Alleanza Nazionale and its way to the center. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016, p. 285.

[5] Fiamma Tricolore Roma