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\"italics\"<\/a>By Terence Daley*<\/strong><\/p>\n

A decision to name a Rome street after the founder of Italy\u2019s major post-war neofascist party and editor of an infamous Mussolini-era racist journal will be blocked, the mayor of the capital announced Friday.<\/p>\n

On Thursday Rome city council approved a motion to have a street or square named after Giorgio Almirante, one of the founders and long-time leader of the now-defunct Italian Social Movement (MSI) and veteran of the Italian Social Republic, a wartime Nazi-controlled puppet state.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo street will be dedicated to Giorgio #Almirante. Tomorrow I will present a motion signed by me,\u201d Virginia Raggi said on Twitter in the early hours of Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Almirante founded the MSI, the political heir to Mussolini\u2019s Fascist Party, in December 1946, less than two years after Italy was liberated by the allies in World War II.<\/p>\n

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies 11 times from 1948 to 1987, and at the time of his death the MSI was Italy\u2019s fourth-largest party.<\/p>\n

He was editor of notorious Fascist-era journal \u201cDefense of the Race,\u201d first published just before Benito Mussolini\u2019s Fascist dictatorship decreed in 1938 the \u201cracial laws\u201d that stripped Jews of Italian citizenship, laying the ground for the deportations to Nazi concentration camps that began in 1943.<\/p>\n

Mayor Raggi represents the Five Star Movement, which recently took the reins of the Italian government alongside nationalist party the League.<\/p>\n

Italian media reports that only one of Five Star\u2019s 28 city councilors voted against the motion \u2014 presented by far-right party Brothers of Italy which has roots in the MSI. Another two abstained.<\/p>\n

The vote in favor sparked fierce criticism, in particular from the Jewish Community of Rome, who described the vote \u201ca disgrace to the history of this city.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone who was editor of Defense of the Race and never showed any remorse doesn\u2019t deserve to have a road named after them,\u201d the organization said in a statement.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night on current affairs program Porta a Porta, Raggi had expressed surprise that the initial motion passed, but said she would respect the vote, as \u201cthe city council is sovereign like the (national) parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her decision to roll back the motion approved by her council enraged the Italian right.<\/p>\n

Having initially celebrated a \u201chistoric result\u201d for the vote, Giorgia Meloni, national leader of Brothers of Italy, branded \u201cStalinist\u201d Raggi \u201ca joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

She wrote on Facebook: \u201cWe will fight on via (road\/street) Almirante. The city council voted in favor and to demand a change of tack would be simply Stalinist.\u201d
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\n*This article was published in The Times of Israel on June 16, 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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