Mussolini granddaughter runs for mayor

The granddaughter of wartime Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini today said she is running to be mayor of Rome in elections next month.

Alessandra Mussolini ran in the April 9 and 10 parliamentary elections with a small right-wing party supporting conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi. But her party failed to make the threshold necessary to send politicians to parliament.