Rachele Mussolini: "My sister Alessandra will bring light and rights to the League"
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"I didn't know it, but I admire her," says the Forza Italia city councilor in Rome and younger sister of Alessandra who has just joined the League. "After the misunderstandings of the past, we have found our relationship again. A true sisterhood"
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“I hope Alessandra brings some color to the League,” she says. Then she adds: “She and I are daughters of different mothers, it’s true, but we are sisters, not ‘stepsisters’… what an ugly word. You see, for me blood counts. And for some time now, Elisabetta, she and I have been together again.” Speaking to Il Foglio is Rachele Mussolini, the youngest of the sisters, nieces of Benito, daughters of the jazz musician Romano . A municipal councilor at the Campidoglio, Rachele – daughter not of Maria Scicolone like Alessandra but of the former actress Carla Maria Puccini – moved from Fratelli d’Italia to Forza Italia last September. And she interprets, like her more famous sister, the liberal positions in the electoral basin of the center-right. Even the eldest, however – the news was yesterday – is in these hours the protagonist of a waltz that has pushed her from Forza Italia towards the shores of the League .
Alessandra will meet with Secretary Matteo Salvini in the next few days to formalize her membership. Sisterly coincidences? Parallel Mussolinis? Can you explain your phenomenon? “I have a good relationship with her now,” Rachele replies, “but I’m honest: she hadn’t told me. So Alessandra will be the one to talk about it. I can only hope that she brings light, color, joy, and freshness to the ranks of the League. Since civil rights and the values of progressivism are transversal.”
When he talks about lights and shadows, we imagine he means the League of General Vannacci, recently promoted to deputy secretary of the Carroccio. “I also wrote it to a colleague from the League”. What did he write? “I sent him a WhatsApp: 'You'll see that you will become the rainbow party' . That would be wonderful”. And he? “He replied with a smiley. In life you have to know how to laugh. In this I am similar to Alessandra. And in any case, even if she is in another party, I admire her. My sister knows how to put herself on the line. And it is not easy. It was not easy for me either in the transition from Fratelli d'Italia to Forza Italia”. A troubled transition? “I waited fifty years, as I always say. I am grateful to Giorgia Meloni's party, but I understood that the time was not ripe for my progressivism, and that in another container I would have found a welcome”.
Some insinuate that your sister joined the League to avoid treading her own water. Is that so? “Here. Over time I have understood that many of our misunderstandings were caused by the media. In reality we are different ages, we have experienced many adversities, but now we have picked up the thread of our relationship. My daughters have recently met their aunts and cousins”. That is, the children of Alessandra and Elisabetta, who is a notary. But by the way, after the Duce the family tree seems to have yielded mostly women. “There is a female prevalence, yes. The only one who will carry on the surname will be Caio Giulio Cesare, the son of Guido, and nephew of Vittorio” . Candidate in the European elections in 2019 with Fratelli d’Italia. It seems he does not have a wonderful relationship with Alessandra. “When my father learned of this name, Caio Giulio Cesare, he burst out laughing”. Why? "Because he imagined the effect it would have had together with the surname Mussolini. My father Romano never lacked irony. If we are tolerant people it is thanks to him."
With her sister does she share irony, the rainbow, and what else? “We are both separated mothers.” A matriarchy, in short. “And a rediscovered human relationship. I would say a sisterhood.” Like the neo-Lega politician, has she also had experience in the world of entertainment? Alessandra, following in the footsteps of her aunt Sophia Loren (Scicolone branch), acted in A Special Day by Ettore Scola. She posed for Playboy. “No. In this I am different. I have always avoided interviews. Only once did they succeed and from there my character emerged. I went to Costanzo. But it didn’t last long.” How long? “A few months. They put the 'Miss 96' sash on me and invited me to participate in Miss Italia. I went. But only as a guest.”
Are there other, or perhaps it is better to say “other”, Mussolinis ready to commit? “I wouldn’t say so. But yes: it is better to say others. I am very close to Bruno’s daughter, my cousin Marina. As I was saying, she will carry on the surname Caio Giulio Cesare, even if some of us have given our daughters our own surname”. And you? “Not me. I don’t even think about it. You see, if I am tolerant it is also because I know what it means to be discriminated against, insulted, mocked. Cornered because of your family. I am happy with my surname because I loved my father Romano . But I didn’t give it to my daughters, who indirectly experienced my anguish. I let them live peacefully, with their father’s surname. And I hope that Alessandra will bring freshness”.
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