Word: fascistes
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...weeks earlier, a gang of 200 Nazi-skins marched through the northern Italian city of Vicenza shouting racist slogans and waving banners with swastika-like emblems. Mainstream political leaders expressed outrage, but not Teodoro Buontempo, 48, a self-proclaimed fascist elected to Parliament in March on the ticket of the National Alliance, the successor to the party founded by followers of Benito Mussolini. In an interview with the Turin daily La Stampa, Buontempo said, "I would send them into the midst of society" to proclaim their values. And they have. Speaking on the Italian television network RAI-1, Maurizio Boccacci...
...example of Italy is the one that troubles Europeans most. In the midst of a soul-destroying political crisis, Italian voters reached not just to the right but to the spiritual descendants of Mussolini to rescue their nation. These new politicians reject any direct fascist connection. Today's National Alliance says it is not interested in the authoritarian leadership and bombastic nationalism of the old Fascists but in tougher jail sentences, job creation and limits on immigration...
Millionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, 57, took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Italy's 53rd post-World War II government. He named a Cabinet that included, as expected, members of the neo-Fascist National Alliance...
...days' worth of voting was done, Berlusconi stood triumphant on Italy's center stage; Forza Italia (Go Italy!), the party he had conjured from thin air barely three months ago, had emerged as the most important force in the country. In concert with the Northern League and the neo-Fascist National Alliance, the so-called Freedom Alliance had elbowed aside 45 years of corrupt postwar government. Armed with an absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament and close to a majority in the Senate, Berlusconi seemed certain to become the nation's next Prime Minister...
...fractious right-wing coalition won Italy's national parliamentary elections. Led by billionaire Silvio Berlusconi, the Freedom Alliance won a strong majority of 366 seats in Parliament's lower house and a plurality of 155 seats in the Senate. Included in the victorious coalition is the neo-Fascist National Alliance, whose leaders still revere the memory of the dictator Benito Mussolini...