Granddaughter of Mussolini to leave Brothers of Italy as it is ‘too rightwing’

‘It is time to turn the page and join a party that I feel is closer to my moderate and centrist sensibilities,’ Mussolini said. Photograph: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP/Getty Images

A granddaughter of Italy’s wartime dictator Benito Mussolini said on Thursday she was leaving Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party because it was too rightwing.

Rachele Mussolini, a city councillor in Rome, said she was moving to the group of Forza Italia, which is part of Italy’s ruling coalition but seen as more liberal on civil rights.