Italy's Meloni distances herself from fascism on Liberation Day celebrations

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni attends a Liberation Day ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in central Rome, Italy April 25, 2023. REUTERS/Remo Casilli

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's ruling coalition has no "nostalgia for fascism", Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday, looking to push back against critics who have accused her Brothers of Italy party of failing to distance itself from its neofascist past.

Meloni addressed the issue in a letter to Corriere della Sera newspaper on the day Italy celebrates the end of the German occupation in World War Two and the victory of partisan resistance fighters over the Nazis and their fascist allies.