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Alessandra Mussolini
Personal details
Born (1962-12-30) December 30, 1962 (age 62)
Rome, Italy
Political partyMSI-DN (1992–1995)
National Alliance (1995–2003)
Social Action (2003–)
SpouseMauro Floriani (1989 to date)
Children3

Alessandra Mussolini (born December 30 1962) is an Italian right-wing politician, previously an actress and model. She is the leader and founder of the neo-fascist political party Social Action; since 2003 Mussolini has also been a Member of the European Parliament.

Some of Mussolini's noted stances are in regards to social views on women and children's rights and role within both the family unit and society in general. A political journalist asserts that Alessandra has done much for women in Italy, as a strong uncompromising character, which is rare for a female in Italian politics.

Personal life

Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome, the daughter of Anna Maria Scicolone (from Pozzuoli, Province of Naples) and Romano Mussolini the third son of the Fascist leader Benito Mussolini (from Forlì, Emilia-Romagna). The actress Sophia Loren is her aunt.

From 1976 to 1980 she went to high school at the American Overseas School of Rome. She graduated in 1986 from Università di Rimini, where she got her Master of Arts in film management. From 1987 to 1994 she studied at the University of Rome for her M.D.

She married customs police officer Mauro Floriani on 28 October 1989. They have three children, Caterina, Clarissa, and Romano Floriani. The children bear their father's surname, but she went through a complex legal process to allow them to attach her last name to theirs, and has campaigned for Italian law to be changed to allow all children to take their mother's last name should they so wish.

Entertainment career

File:Alessandra Mussolini - Amore.jpg
Cover of her album Amore, released in 1982.

Alessandra was taken under the wing of her aunt Sophia Loren for a while and started a career as an actress in the Italian language film industry during the 1970s. A Special Day (1977), in which she had a minor role as "Maria Luisa", won an American Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

During 1982, Mussolini released a pop music album of romantic songs under the title Amore on Alfa Records, the album was only released in Japan and has since become somewhat of a collectors item. Mussolini also appeared as a topless model, including on the cover of two European editions of Playboy, in Italy (August 1983) and Germany (November 1983). "When you are an actress, you are dealing with the body. Every actress does topless and stuff like this; you have to.", she has said.

Mussolini continued as an actress into the 1980s. Some of the films she featured in were made for Italian television, however she still acted in standard cinematic films, such as The Assisi Underground where she played a nun, the movie focused on the Roman Catholic Church rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943. She starred in her final film during 1990 and then left the film industry to continue studying, after a producer asked her to change her name, due to the film industry being "an industry that is traditionally connected to the left".

Political career

In 1992, she was elected to parliament in a Naples constituency as a member of the neofascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). She was favorable to the idea of an alliance between MSI and Forza Italia with a view to the elections of 1994, but she opposed the liquidation of the MSI and the creation of the new party Alleanza Nazionale.

She later was a candidate for the post of mayor of Naples, but was defeated by Antonio Bassolino. Her relations with Gianfranco Fini, leader of the Alleanza Nazionale (National Alliance party), never were very good, she announced; she then withdrew later, her resignation due to differences with him at least once. This antagonism was exacerbated when Fini criticized some aspects of fascism, such as its antisemitism. She unsuccessfully challenged him for leadership of the party when he withdrew support for Benito Mussolini in a television interview in January of 2002.

In November 2003 Fini paid a visit to Israel,. There he declared that fascism had been "the absolute evil", apologizing to the government of Israel for the racial laws that Benito Mussolini had approved in 1938. Shortly after these declarations, Alessandra Mussolini abandoned Alleanza Nazionale.

She then founded a new party of the extreme right, Libertà di Azione ("Freedom of Action") (now called Azione Sociale), which united with other neo-fascist movements and gave rise to the electoral cartel Alternativa Sociale (Social Alternative). At the European elections of 2004, this coalition obtained 1.2% of the vote, permitting Alessandra to be elected to the European Parliament.

On July 22, 2004 she said in Strasbourg:

I know the English have a sense of humor about themselves, but I am from Naples and I can say that we women do know how to cook and clean the refrigerator and even be politicians, while perhaps Godfrey Bloom does not know either how to clean the refrigerator or how to be a politician

In March 2005, Mussolini was banned by a local court from regional elections held the following month for presenting fraudulent signatures. "This is an affront to democracy, if they're going to exclude the Social Alternative they will have to exclude all the parties, because all the signature lists are false", Mussolini told Reuters. Mussolini went on a hunger strike to protest the decision. However, at the end of the month Italy's top administrative court, the Council of State, annulled the decision and she stood for election.

In 2006 she responded to criticism by trans-gender Italian M.P. candidate Vladimir Luxuria, with a line "Meglio fascista che frocio", that has been roughly translated as "It is better to be a fascist than a faggot." The Italian word used, "frocio", is considered an insult referring to one's buttocks.

In November 2007, remarks by Mussolini triggered the collapse of the far-right Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty grouping within the European Parliament. Mussolini declared that all Romanians were criminals in remarks regarding immigration policy. This prompted delegates from the Greater Romania Party to quit the group, bringing the group below the minimum number of members to qualify as a caucus and receive Parliament funding.

She is a member of following European Parliament committees and delegations:

She also is an Honorary Member of the Italian Red Cross.

Filmography

Notes and references

  1. ^ ""Alessandra Mussolini: Politician in stilettos"". The Independent. 08 February 2004. Retrieved 2008-01-03. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help) Also archived at FindArticles.com as "Mussolini In Stilettos" by Susan Chenery.
  2. "Chronicle" by Nadine Brozan, The New York Times, November 15, 1994.
  3. "Mussolini calls for new naming law" by Malcolm Moore, The Daily Telegraph, May 31, 2006
  4. "Alessandra Mussolini - Amore (1982)". Orrore a 33 Giri.com. 13 April 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-03. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  5. Jan Repa (9 January, 2004). ""Italy's post-fascists to regroup"". BBC News. Retrieved 2008-01-03. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. "Playboy Italy - Covers of 1983". PBCovers.com. August 1983. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  7. "Playboy Germany - Covers of 1983". PBCovers.com. November 1983. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  8. "The Assisi Underground (1985)". IMDB.com. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  9. "A Mussolini Quits Rightist Party in Italy" The New York Times, November 15, 1996.
  10. "Alessandra Mussolini seeks leadership of Italy's far Right" by Bruce Johnston, The Daily Telegraph, 26 January, 2002
  11. "Mussolini to challenge party boss", CNN, January 25, 2002
  12. "World should beg forgiveness of Israel",November 22, 2003 by Adi Schwartz Haaretz
  13. Quote in the original language Italian: "So che gli Inglesi hanno il senso dell’autoironia, ma io sono napoletana e posso dire che noi donne sappiamo cucinare e pulire i frigoriferi e facciamo anche politica, mentre forse Godfrey Bloom non sa né pulire i frigoriferi, né fare politica."
  14. "Alessandra Mussolini barred from election because of faked signatures" by John Hooper, The Guardian , March 14, 2005
  15. "Mussolini’s granddaughter barred from vote", Reuters, March 13, 2005, on Tiscali News
  16. "Hunger Strike By Mussolini", Associated Press, March 15, 2005, on CBS News
  17. "Q&A: Italy regional elections", BBC News, 1 April, 2005
  18. "Mussolini a Vladimir Luxuria 'Meglio fascista che frocio'", La Repubblica, 9 March, 2006 Template:It
  19. "Xenophobia destroys EU's ultra-rightwing MEP group", The Guardian, November 15, 2007

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