Ignazio La Russa show at the Fratelli d’Italia Convention underway in Pescara. «I got tired of having to repeat the same things, last year I was invited by Vespa and he asked me a question. I brought a copy of the speech, and I made copies for the journalists.” The President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa thus responds to a question on anti-fascism from the stage during the programmatic conference of FdI in Pescara. “If you mean a firm no to dictatorship and a firm no to nostalgia, you can certainly define me as anti-fascist,” he says, reading the text of the speech. «The militant anti-fascism of the 70s is something else», he adds. «Do I have to say this every day? – he adds – whoever asks this question will read this answer. If they are satisfied, fine, if not, they will scratch themselves.” On April 25 “I went to pay homage to the unknown soldier”, recalls La Russa. And when asked if we couldn’t close the page of the dead of the 70s all together, he underlines: «I in my small way when I made the inauguration speech as president of the Senate, in which I was also elected by votes of a large number of senators from the left and the opposition, I referred precisely to this. I spoke about Sergio Ramelli and two young people from the social centres, Fausto and Iaio, still waiting for justice to be done. Let us finally put a word of pacification on the many young people who lost their lives while others were fed for political reasons.”
He offers his three hundred and sixty degree point of view and truly “without filters”, explaining on several occasions that “if it’s not enough, scratch yourself”. Ignazio La Russa closes his public interview at the Pescara Program Conference by explaining that «the truth is that there are those who wake up every morning and start saying “oh my God, someone from FdI is president of the Senate, and they skip breakfast. Bonelli I know he doesn’t eat breakfast thinking that Italy is governed by Meloni, that Sangiuliano is Minister of Culture, Urso of Made in Italy, Santanchè of Tourism, that Foti and Malan are the group leaders of the largest party in Italy the hunger passes…” The President of the Senate, pressed by Bianca Berlinguer, recognizes that «on Via Rasella I spoke of a “military band” and it wasn’t true, even if numerous texts made the mistake I should have documented myself better. I have to regret this, but I don’t have to regret – he notes – for having kept an inheritance from my father, the bust of Mussolini, in the house. And why should I throw away a gift from my father? Now my sister has it , I have Stalin, De Gasperi, a Roman emperor, Mao’s helmet. And why not a gift from my father…”. «That shot – she observes again – was from 10 years ago and they kept it in the drawer all that time. “If someone becomes president of the Senate,” he adds, “it doesn’t bother her. If they want to make you do it – she quips – run away. For this reason – she adds, half seriously and half jokingly – I wanted to be the Minister of Sport.”
«There is a small outbreak within the universities that could become a fire. Let’s stop him while we still have time.” Ignazio La Russa, president of the Senate, said this in the interview at the Fratelli d’Italia programmatic conference in Pescara. “No one forbids us to hold all the demonstrations he wants but no one can claim the right not to let another speak,” he said. For La Russa there are «some signs of intolerance in universities. This was not the case in the 1970s but now many majority and opposition political forces are calling a halt to this way of conceiving the contrast, especially from the President of the Republic. So I’m optimistic,” he concluded.
