La Russa on Vannacci: “Good for him who doesn’t have a handicapped child”

On the stage of the FdI programmatic convention in Pescara, before Giorgia Meloni, he speaks Ignazio La Russa. The head of state Sergio Mattarella this morning she called him after the case of the photo posted upside down. “I said: President, these are not the problems but thank you for your wonderful thoughts, for your solidarity,” La Russa reported.

The criticisms of Vannacci

“It’s good for him that he doesn’t have a handicapped child, otherwise he would understand that he had said something stupid”, he said, speaking of General Roberto Vannacci, the president of the Senate to the applause of the public. La Russa, however, urged us not to criminalize the general. Then she added: “How can a soldier challenge his defense minister? For me it’s more serious than everything else.”

The “outbreaks” in universities

“Let’s put a word of pacification on many young people who lost their lives”, on the right and on the left in the Seventies, said the president of the Senate. And speaking of the current clashes in universities he hoped: “I hope that the tragedy is repeated only in farce” but, La Russa remarked, there are “some signs in the universities, a small outbreak that could become a fire, let’s stop it immediately. I see that there are those who are trying to bring it back, let’s put a halt immediately, I see that a halt is coming from the political forces and above all from the President of the Republic, it wasn’t like this in the seventies”. And he concluded: “All demonstrations are a right but no one can claim the right not to have the right to speak exercised.”

FdI’s tribute to Enrico Berlinguer

Then the number one of the Senate talks about fascism: “The positive values ​​of the Resistance and anti-fascism are in the first part of the Constitution. Even if the word anti-fascist isn’t there.” And he adds that if the word anti-fascist “means a firm no to dictatorship and a firm no to nostalgia, you can certainly define me as anti-fascist”. But he adds a distinction: “Then there is the militant anti-fascism of the 70s which is another thing”. Interviewing him on stage is Bianca Berlinguer. And the two are protagonists of an exchange that culminated with a standing ovation from the FdI audience for the historic leader of the PCI. “Here I’m the only one speaking, Bianca Berlinguer, and let’s not bring it up, let’s talk about what my father did but not what he would have said today”, says Bianca Berlinguer. But La Russa replies that “surnames cannot be erased, some would like the family tradition not to exist, that the family did not count, but for us it matters and in you we also honor the figure of your father”. “Being the daughter of Enrico Berlinguer – says the TV journalist – I consider it a fortune, a gift that life has granted me and which unfortunately ended too soon because my father died at the age of 62, when I was 24, my sister 22, my brother 21 and my newest sister 13, our lives for the most part have been spent without dad.” These words triggered the audience’s applause and the standing ovation: “This applause and this standing ovation in which I join – La Russa closes the tribute – is the coherent continuation of the homage that the leader of the right paid to Enrico Berlinguer on the day of his passing”, when MSI leader Giorgio Almirante attended the funeral.