The mayor of Cosenza, Franz Caruso: “Attacks on democracy must be denounced and opposed”
“These first hints of the electoral campaign for the European elections make the crisis of democracy in Italy even more evident, which prepares for the authoritarian drift by reopening the doors to a climate of twenty years of fascism, which cannot and must not return”. This was stated by Mayor Franz Caruso, who is concerned about the latest statements by Ignazio La Russa, president of the Senate, in which he claims Vannacci’s right to stand as a candidate.
“Someone who refuses to declare himself an anti-fascist has no right to stand as a candidate to represent Italy and Italians anywhere – insists Franz Caruso – Our legal system is based, in fact, on the Constitution which is anti-fascist because it was born from the Resistance. But La Russa certainly cannot accept and admit this given that he wants to modify the Constitutional Charter for the benefit of the introduction of the premiership, all aimed at making his party leader, Giorgia, the “undisputed” prime minister of the country. The latter is a charge that the President of the Council of Ministers already shows off on election posters and placards in which his face appears with the slogan “With Giorgia” which recalls the Duce’s propaganda when, in particular, he used his face on Palazzo Braschi for the 1934 elections.”
“I hope the fascist madness of the darkest twenty years in Italian history will not return – concludes Franz Caruso – but the attacks on democracy are now increasingly evident and must be denounced and opposed”.
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