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| | Statewatch News Online: Italy: Regional elections, false signatures and the mass violation of data protection as right ... |
 | | Alessandra Mussolini was elected to the European Parliament in the elections held on 12-13 June 2004, as part of the far-right Alternativa Sociale con Alessandra Mussolini election ticket, which included neo-fascist groups like Roberto Fiore's Forza Nuova (FN) and Adriano Tilgher's Fronte Sociale Nazionale, receiving 398,036 votes and a 1.2% share of the vote. |
 | | Mussolini has taken up her seat in the European Parliament in Strasbourg and is part of the Justice, Freedom and Security commission, which also includes Mario Borghezio, a Lega Nord MEP who has a long history of racist outbursts and xenophobic initiatives nehind him (see Statewatch vol. |
 | | Mussolini was exultant after the election results, and regretted that it had been impossible to strike a deal with another far-right party, Fiamma Tricolore, which also managed to maintain an MEP in the Strasbourg parliament, with 0.7% of the vote (236,016 votes, down from 496,030 votes and a 1.6% share of the vote in 1999). |
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