The appointment in the Government of Italy of a

far-right deputy

who was photographed in 2005 with a

Nazi armband

has generated great controversy this Tuesday and condemnations of the opposition.

Galeazzo Bignami

, elected as part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's post-fascist Brothers of Italy party list, was appointed deputy infrastructure minister on Monday.

The lawyer, now 47, was photographed at a party in 2005 wearing a black suit and a

swastika

bracelet .

The deputy of the Democratic Party

Marco Furfaro

has declared on Twitter that the appointment is an "offense, an indecency against the Constitution, memory, History and for the victims of the swastika".

For his part, Bignami condemned in a statement "all forms of totalitarianism, liberticidal and anti-democratic expressions" and described Nazism as

"absolute evil"

.

The 2005 photo was taken "in a private context" and he added that he has apologized "more than once".

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