Mussolini's granddaughter barred from vote

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5597515

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian electoral body has barred the granddaughter of Italian wartime dictator Benito Mussolini from standing in local elections in April, ruling she had forged signatures needed to allow her to stand in the vote.

Alessandra Mussolini, leader of the far-right Social Alternative movement, had intended to run for the presidency of Lazio region -- one of 14 regions being contested in key elections to be held on April 3 and 4.

Mussolini said she would appeal the ruling by the electoral commission which ruled that 871 of the signatures of support each candidate must present had been forged.

"This is an affront to democracy, if they're going to exclude the Social Alternative they have to exclude all the parties because all the signature lists are false," Mussolini told Reuters.

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. "An affront to democracy"

From a card-carrying and pedigreed Fascist.

That's rich.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Kind of like something the Chimp In Chief might say n/t

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. Democracy is important

only when its mechanisms permit you to undermine it, I guess.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. To be fair

If she has a complaint, it should be heard by an impartial body and judged on its merits.

And if she's allowed to run after all, I hope she goes down in flames.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Word of advice, Ms. M... stay out of grandad's line of work...

The way they fired him was pretty harsh:

[Gman]

6. She's a lot better looking than Bush

but that's about all I can say.

[HawkerHurricane]

7. Just another far rightist...

trying to get into office on name recognition.

Let her run.

If she loses, she got what she deserves.

If she wins, Italy gets what it deserves.

[NYC]

8. She has quite a history in Italian politics.

Always right wing.

[arcos]

9. She has been elected 2 or 3 times to Parliament before...

She has name recognition in her own right now, although at first she did run on her last name only...

[Vogon_Glory]

10. In The Meantime, She's Watching Boosh And Taking Notes

I'm sure that while Alessandra Mussolini is waiting for her electoral troubles to be resolved, she's studying the Boosh Regime's practices of paid private-sector propagandists, Potemkin-style "town meetings," and routine disinformation to better-credentialed journalists and is studying how the GOP masters play the political game.