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Italian public sector boss resigns after Mussolini email

The head of an Italian state-controlled company resigned on Tuesday after it was revealed that he sent an internal email quoting from an infamous speech by fascist dictator Benito Mussolini.

Claudio Anastasio resigned as chairman of 3-I, a company that manages software systems for Italy's welfare and statistics agencies, two government sources told Reuters.

Anastasio was appointed in November by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a conservative with neo-fascist political roots whose coalition government is the most right-wing in Italy's postwar history.

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