Alessandra Mussolini is quitting her party after its leader denounced her grandfather’s fascist regime during a visit to Israel. During an official visit to Israel this week, Gianfranco Fini denounced Fascism as an “absolute evil.” Alessandra Mussolini, a legislator from the right-wing National Alliance Party, said Fini had gone too far.
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