Furious Mussolini to start new party after split

FIRST she left her right- wing party, furious about its leader’s denunciation of Italy’s fascist past.

Then Alessandra Mussolini, proud granddaughter of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, said she would start her own political party Mussolini’s announcement last week severed her ties with the National Alliance party, and especially its leader, Gianfranco Fini.

It also showed how some party officials and the rank-and-file still have a deep nostalgia for the fascist government, though it may not be politically correct.