Rachele Mussolini is leaving the party of Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – because she thinks it is too right-wing. However, she is living well off the name of her notorious grandfather.
Rachele Mussolini is not just any politician. When she says or does something, it has a huge impact. This is due to her “cognome pesante”, as the Italians say – the heavy surname. Her name is even doubly heavy: she is the granddaughter of the dictator and inventor of fascism, and she also takes the first name from her grandmother, who had to be addressed as “Donna Rachele” like an aristocrat and was considered even more radical than Benito Mussolini.
Source: Stern
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