In the preface to the volume, Ignazi describes the founders of Fratelli d'Italia as those who did not accept the "concealment" of the original ideology and decided to "rekindle the flame", reproducing the "mimesis" based on the "underestimation and euphemization of the Fascist regime". [...] The discrediting of the parties that had governed the country for almost fifty years turned what had been the MSI's weakness – its long distance from the places of power – into a point of strength, enabling it to claim its "clean hands" in the face of the dishonesty of the rest of the political class. [...] The popular will was invoked only to encourage recourse to the ballot box and to close the chapter on "governments of the president" (of the Republic)31, without departing from that exaltation of the virtues of the common people which is one of the clearest indicators of the populist mentality. [...] Instead of denouncing the "techno-bureaucrats of Brussels", for example, this program expresses the intention to "relaunch the system of European integration, for a Europe of the nations, based on the interests of the peoples and capable of facing up to the challenges of our time". [...] The proposals are limited to calling for "the defense of national and European borders as provided for in the Schengen Treaty and as demanded by the EU, with border controls and the blocking of landing stages to stop, in agreement with the North African authorities, the trafficking of human beings" and the stipulation of agreements between the EU and the states of origin of illegal migrants to man.
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Table of Contents
- FRATELLI DITALIA NEO-FASCIST HERITAGE POPULISM AND CONSERVATISM 1
- INTRODUCTION 8
- I. THE DEBATE OVER FRATELLI DITALIAS POLITICAL IDENTITY 8
- II. THE LONG JOURNEY OF THE ITALIAN RIGHT SINCE 1945 8
- 1. Integration strategy within the right 8
- 2. The centrist strategy Gianfranco Fini 8
- 3. The Populist strategy Matteo Salvinis Lega 4. From the split of Popolo della Libertà to seizing power 8
- III. THE CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONAL 8
- AND EUROPEAN SITUATION 8
- 1. The ideological perspective 2. The organizational perspective 3. The european perspective 8
- APPENDIX I - HISTORY OF THE ITALIAN RIGHT. CHRONOLOGICAL OVERVIEW SINCE 1922 8
- APPENDIX II - CHRONOLOGY OF ITALIAN GOVERNMENTS SINCE 1946 8
- 1. The strategy of right-wing integration the Movimento sociale italiano MSI 15
- 2. The refocusing strategy. Gianfranco Fini and Alleanza nazionale 17
- 3. Populist strategy Matteo Salvinis Lega 21
- 4. From the Popolo della Libertà split to power the meteoric rise of Giorgia Meloni 23
- 1. On an ideological level 33
- 2. At organizational level 35
- 3. At European level 38
