La Russa: “The right has changed since 1995 but we are proud that the flame has remained”

From 1995 to today, for the right, "it is an evolution without solution of continuity. It is no coincidence that, even without the trapezium, without MSI writings, from the birth of the post-war right to today, a graphic sign has remained: the flame . And we are proud of it - says from Bari the president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa - because it means that one can always remain adapted to the times, capable of deepening, even changing certain evaluations, but without ever losing one's own identity".

La Russa, from the presentation of the book La destra di governo by Fabrizio Tatarella , grandson of Giuseppe Tatarella , talks about the flame in the symbol of Fratelli d'Italia. "It has remained as a sign of continuity from the MSI , it is a republican symbol, it was not there before the post-war period, it was not from fascism", he said a year ago. A few months later, on the possibility of removing the flame from the symbol of his party, FdI, he was categorical: "As long as I am alive, it is out of the question", he said. The debate opened after a statement by the Minister for Relations with Parliament Luca Ciriani ("If we want to move forward and look to the future, then the time will come to put out the flame, the time will come when we will remove it from the symbol. It may not be soon, but it will come. But by our choice, and certainly not because someone imposes it on us").

The right today, according to La Russa, "is adapted to the times, capable of interpreting its own national identity even better than in the past, detached from any particularism that to others might seem to still exist and, instead, is now outdated", he explains. A right "that remains rich in those values ​​and those identities that, precisely in Puglia, with Pinuccio Tatarella but also a little with Salvatore , have found an apotheosis".