Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told her Brothers of Italy party on Tuesday that it should expunge from its ranks anyone who idolises Italy’s fascist past.
Her call came after an undercover media investigation last week released a video of members of her party’s youth wing making fascist salutes and chanting “Sieg Heil”.
In a letter to party leaders, Meloni said she was “angry and saddened” that their actions damaged the group’s reputation.
He comes here, to the San Giovanni Battista Hospital on the outskirts of Rome, for therapy with horses where he says the animals give him confidence.
“There is no room in Brothers of Italy for racism or antisemitism, nor is there space for those who are nostalgic for the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century or for any manifestation of foolish folklore,” she wrote.
“Our task is too great for those who have not understood its scope to be allowed to ruin it.”
Brothers of Italy traces its roots to a neo-fascist group set up after World War Two, but Meloni herself has looked to distance herself from the far right in recent years and says her party is mainstream conservative.
