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I'm not Italian or an expert in neo-fascism, I'm just going by what I've seen other people say. Even Wikipedia calls them neo-fascist, and it has a few academic sources backing that up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_of_Italy

Regardless, they are pretty indisputably on the very far right of the overton window

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alas, the wikipedia talk page does include multiple people trying to point out this is wrong, and the academic sources (I checked 3 of them) do not seem to actually analize the party in depth.

* One mentions it, once, saying it's similar to french FN (which wikipedia does not consider as "neo-fascist").

* one mentions one of the party leaders, twice, and once says he belongs to a "neo-fascist party"

* one mentions it in a footnote.

None of these represent a political analysis, but they do show how you can manipulate wikipedia with

I agree 100% that FdI is far right, despicable, and as far from my personal ideas as a party can be.

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