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Italian politician (born 1952)

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Gianfranco Fini (born 3 January 1952) is an Italian politician, former President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, former leader of the conservative National Alliance, the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement and the center-right Future and Freedom party. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Silvio Berlusconi’s government from 2001 to 2006.

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Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.

Resistants were on the right side, Salò Republic's combatants on the wrong one. (...) One cannot equate who was fighting for a right cause of equality and freedom, and who, apart of goodfaith, was on the wrong side. (...) The judgement of the Right [on Fascism] have to be negative, due to freedom limitation. (...) We cannot deny ourselves history, and Fascism was a dictatorship that denied some fundamental freedoms.

cited in «La destra si riconosca nell'antifascismo», Il Corriere della Sera, 13 September 2008.

Corrado De Cesare, Il fascista del Duemila. Le radici del camerata Gianfranco Fini, Kaos Edizioni, 1995, .

During his trip to Israel Fini in Israele "Il fascismo fu parte del male assoluto", 24 November 2003.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

Corriere della Sera, Fini: diamo il diritto di voto agli immigrati, 7 October 2003.

After 1994, we did many things. We had Fiuggi, there was a confrontation. I'd say that today one cannot say it for sure. Today, I would not say it again [that Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.]

Mussolini was the greatest political leader of the century.

October 2006; cited in Alberto Piccinini, Lezioni di storia, il manifesto, 9 settembre 2008, p. 12.

If you ask me:"An openly homosexual teacher can work as a teacher? I say no. (...) I'll not do anything to discriminate you, but I'll also not do anything to put your type of relationship on the same level of the natural family.

Fini: "Una legge per coppie di fatto e gay", Il Giornale, 27 December 2006.

I think the Mussolinean institution of a third way alternative to communism is currently still very relevant.

If we look at Somalia, Ethiopia and Lybia, to how they're reduced now, and to how they were before, with Italy, I think that this page of history will be rewritten and there will be a positive evaluation of the role of Italy

Nobody can ask us to abjure our fascist roots.