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Alessandra Mussolini (born December 30 1962 ) is an Italian right-wing politician and Member Of The European Parliament . FAMILY BACKGROUND Alessandra Mussolini was born in Rome , the daughter of Anna Maria Scicolone and Romano Mussolini , the third son of the fascist leader Benito Mussolini . Her aunt is the actress Sophia Loren ACTING CAREER She pursued an early career as an actress and . She has been quoted as saying "When you are an actress, you are dealing with the body. Every actress does topless and stuff like this; you have to." {Link without Title} Sophia Loren acted alongside her in several of her films. {Link without Title} POLITICAL CAREER In 1992, she was elected to parliament in a Naples Constituency as a member of the Neofascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). She was favorable to the idea of an alliance between MSI and Forza Italia with a view to the elections of 1994, but she opposed the liquidation of the MSI and the creation of the new party Alleanza Nazionale . She later was a candidate for the post of mayor of , such as its Antisemitism . She unsuccessfully challenged him for leadership of the party when he withdrew support for Benito Mussolini in a television interview in January of 2002. [http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/01/25/italy.mussolini/ In November 2003 Fini paid a visit to Israel. There he declared that fascism had been "the absolute evil", apologizing to the government of Israel for the racial laws that Benito Mussolini had approved in 1938. Shortly after these declarations, Alessandra Mussolini abandoned Alleanza Nazionale. She then founded a new party of the extreme right, Libertà di Azione ("Freedom of Action") (now called Azione Sociale ), which united with other neo-fascist movements and gave rise to the electoral cartel Alternativa Sociale (Social Alternative). At the European Elections Of 2004 , this coalition obtained 1.2% of the vote, permitting Alessandra to be elected to the European Parliament . In , annulled the decision and she stood for election. {Link without Title} In 2006 she responded to criticism by trans-gender Italian M.P. candidate Vladimir Luxuria , with a line "Meglio fascista che frocio", that has been roughly translated as "It is better to be a fascist than a faggot." The Italian word used, "frocio", is considered an insult referring to one's buttocks. {Link without Title} She is a member of following European Parliament committees and delegations:
She also is an Honorary Member of the Italian Red Cross . MARRIAGE AND FAMILY She married customs police officer Mauro Floriani on 28 October 1989 . They have three children, Caterina, Clarissa, and Romano Floriani. They bear their father's surname, but she went through a complex legal process to allow them to attach her last name to theirs, and has campaigned for Italian law to be changed to allow all children to take their mother's last name should they so wish. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/31/wmuss31.xml EDUCATION
QUOTES "So che gli Inglesi hanno il senso dell’autoironia, ma io sono napoletana e posso dire che noi donne sappiamo cucinare e pulire i frigoriferi e facciamo anche politica, mentre forse Godfrey Bloom non sa né pulire i frigoriferi, né fare politica." "I know the English have a sense of humor about themselves, but I am from Naples and I can say that we women do know how to cook and clean the refrigerator and even be politicians, while perhaps Godfrey Bloom does not know either how to clean the refrigerator or how to be a politician" Thursday 22 July 2004 - Strasbourg Statement by the President-designate of the Commission (continuation) FILMOGRAPHY Before entering politics, Mussolini appeared in the cinema as an Actress .
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