(ANSA) - ROME, APR 22 - Italian Partisans Association ANPI
slammed Deputy Premier, Transport Minister and rightwing League
party leader Matteo Salvini for choosing to present his new book
on the April 25 Liberation Day holiday saying "a significant
part of this government does not recognise April 25".
ANPI Milan Chair Primo Minelli said Salvini's decision to
present the book in Milan on Thursday "is not recognising this
holiday, nothing else".
Minelli also said Premier Giorgia Meloni appeared to have
trouble describing herself as an antifascist while her brother
in law, Farm Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, had stressed "the
violence of antifascism".
Talking about Meloni's apparent reluctance to define herself as
anti-fascist, as she has repeatedly been urged by the
opposition, Minelli also noted that her Borthers of Italy (FdI)
party has also refused to remove the neo-fascist flame symbol
from its logo, representing the flame that burns on Mussolini's
tomb.
"I can't torture her (to get her to say she's an antifascist).
"And somone should explain to Italians the meaning of that flame
that is there inside the symbol of a party, out of intellectual
honesty, which recalls the one on Mussolini's tomb". (ANSA).
ANPI slams Salvini for presenting book April 25
Part of govt doesn't recognise Liberation Day - Milan chair