Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi announced
overnight that she will stop a move to name a street or piazza
in the capital after postwar Neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement
(MSI) leader Giorgio Almirante, who as a Fascist official had a
lead role in drafting the prewar race laws against Jews.
On Thursday the city council passed a motion in favour of
Almirante (1914-1988), who founded the MSI and led it until a
year before his death, sparking condemnation from Italy's Jewish
community and the partisans association ANPI.
The motion was presented by the rightwing Brothers of Italy
(FdI) party and went through with the support of many
councillors from Raggi's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement
(M5S).
Raggi is set to sign another motion banning streets being
named after Fascist figures or people who expressed anti-Semite
or racist positions and the M5S councillors will present it and
push it through, sources said.
The motion was presented Friday.
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