Regionali Toscana, in Stazzema wins Ceccardi who in 2018 celebrated the Liberation with an SS parade: “The local vote is not ideologized”

The League won in the Municipality of Stazzema, symbol of the city ofanti-fascism in Europe, home to the Museum of Resistance and the National Peace Park, which houses the remains of 560 civilians, mostly women and children, killed and burned by fascists and of H.H on August 12, 1944. Here, the inhabitants voted by majority in favor Susanna ceccardi, regional candidate of Carroccio, former MEP and mayor of Cascina, in the province of Pisa. It was she, in 2018, who wanted to celebrate the liberation day including one SS parade through the city, to give “a high and distant, but understanding look.” He has not changed his mind since. “I am neither a fascist nor an anti-fascist. I am on the side of problems, “he said during the election campaign.

In a town like Stazzema, which has made declared anti-fascism its trademark, so much so that it has launched theanti-fascist registration, adherence to this statement sounds unique. Surely it is to the ears of the survivors. “How do you vote for the Lega? People who live here. What they want? What do you expect? I will be ignorant. I don’t understand whoever votes for the League, I don’t understand him. I’m bitter, ”says a Ilfattoquotidiano.it Enrico Pieri, who escaped at age 10, hiding under the stairs, from the fascists and the SS who exterminated his grandparents, little sisters, father and pregnant mother.

“The first thing Enrico asked me was how many votes there were for the League only in the Sant’Anna district (12 votes for the League, 16 for the Democratic Party, ed.). She’s a bit apprehensive. But I think they have to clearly distinguish the two. We cannot equate the outbreaks of fascism that we see weekly in our country and vote for the right, they are different things. We hope that the right is recognized in our Constitution, until it is proven otherwise ”, he comments on Fatto.it Graziano Lazzerison of two survivors of the massacre, Adele Pardini me Luciano Lazzeri. Your aunt, Anna Pardini, was the youngest victim of the massacre: he was only 20 days old.

Dry the comment of the mayor of Stazzema, Maurizio Verona, from Pd. “Unfortunately, Mr. Ceccardi was the most voted in Stazzema and in the province of Lucca me Massa Carrara, but fortunately for the Tuscan citizens she lost and will not be the president of the Tuscany Region. However, the electoral data make us think and from here on we begin to regress and grow again as progressive forces. Too often we have given the sensation of thinking about internal disputes and little about real problems, and these are the consequences ”.

But there is not only Stazzema. The League won with 45.63 a Pulp, which housed the the Forno massacres, Fosse del Frigido, Bergiola Foscalina. In the latter, there were also the Republicans who murdered 28 children and young people, between 3 months and 17 years old, and 43 adults. The League won a Massarosa, theater of the Sassaia massacre, 60 people shot after being tortured. “Like every year, I was there to commemorate Sassaia. But we set the electoral campaign on issues of regional interest, starting with health care, waste, water source, infrastructure, mobility, which are real issues. The fascism-antifascism issue has never been on the agenda ”, he explains to Fatto.it the Northern League Elisa montemagni, lawyer born in 1987, elected for the second term in the regional council, sole representative of Versilia.

The new president of the Tuscany Region does not think so, Eugenio Giani, chosen with the P.S, so anti-fascism must be declared. “I presented a proposed statutory law so that the word antifascism, with the burden of political, cultural and civil significance it represents, is present in our statute,” he said in July as president of the regional council.

But the outcome of the Lega in Stazzema is nothing new. There had been at least one precedent. “Already in the 90s, when people were still voting for the province of Lucca, he ran for president Enrico Grabau, by National Alliance, but it came from M: Yes. Her victory in Stazzema and also in the Sant’Anna seat caused a sensation. Being the scene of a Nazi-fascist massacre does not guarantee election at the polls. Voting is not so ideological, when you vote for a local administrator, value the person, the candidate of flesh and blood ”, he explains to the Fatto.it Luca cinotti, Lucca editor-in-chief of the newspaper The tyrrhenian sea.

He thinks so too Gianluca Fulvetti, Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Pisa: “There are specific reasons linked to the local context. It depends on the degree of protest that the mayor has at that time, if there was a Ceccardi candidate in the reference area. Of course, memory policies should focus more on young people, also through social networks ”.