Rachele Mussolini: from 'granddaughter Miss' to the most voted mayor of the city council of Rome

• Italy.

  Mussolini's great-grandson: "Fascism died with the Duce. The rest is left-wing rhetoric"

"If a party nominates a person named

and she is

's granddaughter, it does so to attract the votes of those who long for Mussolini. Period." The phrase, from the columnist

in the

synthesizes one of the extremes of the debate in which today the municipal politics of Rome, the capital in which the dictator's surname is flying overhead, is moving. He does it embodied in his granddaughter, the politician Rachele Mussolini (47), who in the last local elections has managed to be the most voted mayor in

. Nostalgia or overcoming the past? Electoral advantage or victory despite the burden of bearing the Mussolini surname? These are two of the questions that the Roman people are asking themselves today.

First, it must be clarified that Rachele Mussolini is the most voted councilor does not mean that she will be mayor of Rome and that she will not even go to the second round of the elections to be held next week. The peculiar Italian municipal electoral system allows dual voting with open lists, in which there is the option of marking who is your favorite candidate, even if it is not the head of the list of the coalition or the party you have voted for. Thanks to this system, Rachele Mussolini has obtained

, a figure with which she reaches a record of support. "The surname had nothing to do with it. It is a reward for my commitment to Rome," he declared in La

after the scrutiny and to vindicate the work that since the 2016 elections she has developed in the Roman consistory as vice president of the Transparency commission and visible face of her party, the

(Brothers of Italy), in her hometown.

FASCISM?

NEITHER YES NOR NO

But ... does

have

connections to fascism beyond consanguinity? Does the party you represent have them? In her statements, Mussolini's granddaughter has never denied her last name or where she comes from while tiptoeing over when it comes to describing fascism. "It is too long a topic to answer in an interview," he answers when asked. His party, the

, verse of his national anthem, is a group on the extreme right of the political spectrum led by another woman,

, and the

heir to

political pupils

. One

(the capital is theirs) based on "respect for sovereignty, independence and national unity."

The party, like Rachele, moves on the wire: fearful on the one hand of its identification with the fascist

and of losing, on the other, an important fishing ground born of the discontent generated by the pandemic and that has as great adversary to the Union government of

.

An important wave that in these municipal elections has made them surpass the Northern League of

and in which Rachele Mussolini is rising, beyond a surname and a name that cannot be separated from her political success.

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A name, Rachele, in honor of his grandmother, Mussolini's second wife and the dictator's official widow, although the partisans hung his favorite lover,

, next to Benito

.

From that second marriage five children were born, one of them the father of Rachele Mussolini, Romano, a jazz musician who first married

,

sister

, and in the second with Rachele's mother:

i, who despite her operatic name was an Italian television and film actress of the 1960s.

Rachele Mussolini poses at the Miss Italia preselection.

Rachele, who knows if by following her maternal genes first, she made her first steps in the world of image and modeling and was one of the shortlisted for

, at the age of 22.

Later he continued his academic training and graduated in languages ​​(speaks English and German) and sociology.

In addition, she has a master's degree in communication that earned her to work for a time at

, Italian public television, as a writer for a talk show.

On the most personal level, she is the mother of two children and is divorced.

ITS POLEMICS

His association with the right of the right and his last name are the two ingredients of a cocktail called to be a generator of controversy.

The most recent with the Italian anti-vaccines, an issue that his party fords with the defense of freedom of choice, but without identifying with the extremist positions of neo-fascist parties, such as

, which demonstrated in Rome last Saturday against the policy of mandatory vaccination of the country.

Two years ago, already in the City Hall, he struck the bell on April 25, the anniversary of the liberation of Italy, when he said that that day "I only celebrate

."

Then he clarified that his ex and father of his children is called that, hence the confusion ...

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