Alessandra Mussolini leaves Forza Italia, the pirouette of the champion of LGBT+ rights enters Salvini's "Orbanian" League

The latest political adventure for Alessandra Mussolini . The Duce's niece, former MEP and member of Forza Italia , leaves the Berlusconi party now led by Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani and moves to Matteo Salvini 's League .

Mussolini joins the Carroccio together with Roberto Cantiani , several times municipal councilor in Campidoglio. The announcement comes via a note from the secretariat of the Lega Lazio: "In the next few days they will meet the federal secretary Matteo Salvini to formalize the membership, together with the regional secretary of Lazio Davide Bordoni. It will also be an opportunity to exchange opinions, ideas and establish the next initiatives to be carried out on the territory together with the team of the Lega of Rome and in Lazio", reads the party's press release.

Mussolini, who was 62 years old, changed parties several times in his long political career: he started with the Italian Social Movement , then moved to National Alliance after the “Fiuggi turning point” promoted by the then leader Gianfranco Fini , and finally to Forza Italia (with a brief stint in a party he founded himself, Social Action).

This latest “pirouette” is politically relevant. Despite her “heavy” surname and her historical right-wing militancy, Alessandra Mussolini is also known for her activism for civil rights , starting with those of the LGBT+ community. Not only that: the new member of the Northern League had recently supported the transcription of children born through GPA, breaking with her sister Rachele, protested the failure to nominate Anna Paola Concia to a commission of the Ministry of Education, and accused the Meloni government of being behind on civil rights.

Positions literally opposite to those of the League, which with Salvini's rosary-based course, clearly on display also in Parliament, has imposed a " Hungarian drift " on the party, on the model of the homophobic prime minister of Budapest, Viktor Orban .