ALESSANDRA MUSSOLINI

'Alessandra Mussolini' (born December 30 1962) is an Italian right-wing politician and Member of the European Parliament.

Contents

Family background

Acting career

Political career

Marriage and family

Education

Quotes

Filmography

References

External links

Family background

Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome, the daughter of Anna Maria Scicolone and Romano Mussolini, the third son of the fascist leader Benito Mussolini. Her aunt is the actress Sophia Loren

Acting career

She pursued an early career as an actress and topless model [1]. She appeared on two covers of European editions of ''Playboy'' magazine: Italian ''Playboy'' for August 1983, which exploited her family relations with the headline "The Grandchild of Il Duce--Alessandra Mussolini--the Boldness of Grandfather Benito, the sex appeal of Aunt Sophia Loren." [2], and the German ''Playboy'' for November 1983 [3], where she performs a striptease.
She has been quoted as saying "When you are an actress, you are dealing with the body. Every actress does topless and stuff like this; you have to."[4]
Sophia Loren acted alongside her in several of her films.
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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.[6] 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. [7] [8]
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.
In March 2005, Mussolini was banned by a local court from regional elections held the following month for allegedly presenting fraudulent signatures [9]. "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 [10]. Mussolini went on a hunger strike to protest the decision. [11] However, at the end of the month Italy's top administrative court, the Council of State, annulled the decision and she stood for election. [12]
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. [13]
She is a member of following European Parliament committees and delegations:

★ Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs

★ Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries

★ Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly
She also is an Honorary Member of the Italian Red Cross.

Marriage and family

She married customs police officer Mauro Floriani on 28 October 1989. [14] They have three children, Caterina, Clarissa, and Romano Floriani. They 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. [15]

Education

★ American Overseas School of Rome 1976-1980 High School

★ John Cabot University 1980-1984 B.A. Agricultural Science

★ Universita' Di Rimini 1984-1986 M.A. Film Management

★ Universita' di Roma 1987-1994 M.D.

Quotes

"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."
"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"

Thursday 22 July 2004 - Strasbourg

Statement by the President-designate of the Commission (continuation)

Filmography

Before entering politics, Mussolini appeared in the cinema as an actress.

★ ''Bianco rosso e'' (1972)

★ ''Una Giornata particolare'' (1977)

★ ''Il Caso Pupetta Maresca'' (1982, TV)

★ ''Il Tassinaro'' (1983)

★ ''Qualcosa di biondo'' (1984)

★ ''The Assisi Underground'' (1985), playing a nun rescuing Jews from Benito Mussolini's fascists

★ ''Ferragosto O.K.'' (1986, TV)

★ ''Noi uomini duri (1987)

★ ''Vincere per Vincere (1988, TV)

★ ''Pupetta Maresca'' (1988, TV)

★ ''Sabato domenica e lunedì ''(''Saturday, Sunday, Monday'', 1990, TV)

★ ''Derech L'Ein Harod, Ha'' (1990)

★ '' (1994)

References

★ "Italy's post-fascists to regroup" by Jan Repa, BBC News, 9 January, 2004

★ "Mussolini in Stilettos" by Susan Chenery, ''The Independent on Sunday'', February 8, 2004, archived at FindArticles.com

★ "A Mussolini Quits Rightist Party in Italy" ''The New York Times'', November 15, 1996

★ "Alessandra Mussolini seeks leadership of Italy's far Right" by Bruce Johnston, ''The Daily Telegraph'', 26 January, 2002

★ "Mussolini to challenge party boss", CNN, January 25, 2002

★ "Alessandra Mussolini barred from election because of faked signatures" by John Hooper, ''The Guardian '', March 14, 2005

★ "Mussolini’s granddaughter barred from vote", Reuters, March 13, 2005, on Tiscali News

★ "Hunger Strike By Mussolini", Associated Press, March 15, 2005, on CBS News

★ "Q&A: Italy regional elections", BBC News, 1 April, 2005

★ "Mussolini a Vladimir Luxuria 'Meglio fascista che frocio'", La Repubblica, 9 March, 2006

★ "Chronicle" by Nadine Brozan, ''The New York Times'', November 15, 1994

★ "Mussolini calls for new naming law" by Malcolm Moore, ''The Daily Telegraph'', May 31, 2006

External links

★ European Parliament CV

★ Official website of Alternativa Sociale

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★ European Database: Women in Decision-making | Interview with Alessandra Mussolini January 2001

★ Interview with Alessandra Mussolini by Antonella Ricciardi, 19 May, 2005

★ Audio interview with Alessandra Mussolini from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, March 30, 2006 (RAM format)

★ Alessandra Mussolini Playboy magazine covers at PBCovers.com