Neo-Xeno Coalition in Danger
The Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) coalition of far-right European parties may be collapsing, as Romanian members break out the dreaded F word to describe hot neo-xeno Italian babe MEP Alessandra Mussolini after she insulted their honor: Cat Fight on the Far Right: Mussolini’s Romania Comments Split Extremist MEP Group.
The European Parliament’s miniscule far-right group is on the verge of collapse after the Romanian members threatened to walk out in response to derogatory comments by another member, Italian MEP Alessandra Mussolini.
When xenophobic far-right political parties in the European Parliament formed a group last year, many predicted it would fall victim to its inherent contradictions. Parties whose bread and butter is attacking foreigners were expected to find it a bit difficult to cooperate even if they were all cut from the same extremist cloth.
Now the Romanian contingent of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty group (ITS) is threatening to pull the plug. The Greater Romania Party on Thursday announced it was withdrawing its five members because of comments by Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the Italian dictator, about Romanians.
The standoff between Italian and Romanian xenophobes was sparked by the murder of an Italian woman last week, which police suspect was perpetrated by a Romanian immigrant from the Roma community. While the center-left Italian government has responded by authorizing the expulsion of any Romanians, or other EU citizens, who are deemed to pose a danger, the Italian far-right has been calling for even harsher measures.
Mussolini was quoted as saying this week that: “Breaking the law became a way of life for Romanians. However, it is not about petty crimes, but horrifying crimes, that gives one goose bumps.”
Romania’s far-right reacted with fury. The head of the Greater Romania Party, Corneliu Vadim Tudor said in a letter to the parliament: “The unconsciousness of this lady who makes easily generalizations, leaving us to understand that all the Romanians are living like delinquents and are making dreadful crimes, reminds us of her grandfather, the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.”