Rome
Mussolini’s granddaughter started a hunger strike this week, saying her far-right party had been unfairly barred from regional elections. Alessandra Mussolini broke with the post-fascist National Alliance two years ago, when the party leader criticized her grandfather. But her new party, called Freedom of Action, was dropped from the ballot last week, when a court ruled that the signatures of support that the party submitted were forged. Mussolini said she was being persecuted. “The signatures are like those from all other parties,” Mussolini said. “They’re all faked, false, strange, incomplete.”
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