Vannacci: “Controversy in the League? There is no need for olive branches”
“Mussolini is a statesman as were Cavour, Stalin and all the men who occupied state positions: it is the first definition of statesman in the dictionary”. Roberto Vannacci claims this in an interview with La Stampa, in which he explains about feeling anti-fascist: “I find it makes no sense. I don’t like being anti. And then fascism ended almost a hundred years ago. Are you anti-Napoleonic?”.
Vannacci says he is in favor of the return of compulsory military service: “The defense of the homeland, even in arms, is a sacred duty of every citizen, as provided for in the Constitution”. On the controversy in the League over his candidacy he says: “There’s no need to extend olive branches, because I have never raised any problem. If someone has expressed themselves negatively towards me, I understand, it’s part of a phase, but when it comes to working together I hope we close the cupboards of the past and look to the future.”
On the students beaten with truncheons in Florence he always says to La Stampa: “The police forces are called to intervene to enforce the rules. If someone wants to break them, they put themselves in a position to be beaten with a truncheon.”
Finally, Vannacci offers separate classes at school: “I believe that classes with separate characteristics would help kids with great potential to express themselves to the fullest, and even those with more difficulties would be helped in a special way.”