Fontana, the minister who came from nowhere in the Verona of ultras politics
«I've been a friend of his for 23 years. Except that he recognizes Pope Francis and I don't, we could say that we share everything. Fontana is a friend who is trying to be the best minister of the family. If he needs help, he knows he can count on me and my association.".
It is no wonder about the claims of Matthew Castagna, militant traditionalist catholic – for the god series, homeland and family – animator of the club "Christ the King Tradition", which seems to have come from the Middle Ages. Other, which are pronounced by a manager of Forza Nuova, Luca Castellini, ultra of the curve Hellas Verona, they are even more shocking: «He also defends the natural family. It is very in tune with Forzanovist thinking.".
Verona the scandalous, who is resting from the glories of the three-day World Congress of the Family. Involuntarily, Chestnut and Castellini they offer us an unprecedented portrait of the Minister of Family and Disabilities, Lorenzo Fontana.
Without Verona, Fontana would be an extraterrestrial. The political analysis of Castellini: «Verona has always been a right-wing city, anti-communist, identity, conservative, Catholic, borghese. Until now it has been a scandalous avant-garde and now it is in tune with the country, which cleared our historic battles for the protection of national identity, for the traditional family, Catholic culture".
It is true that the Venetian Northern League has always been much more radical, extreme, independentist compared to Umberto Bossi's Lombard League, but the newfound harmony of the extreme right with the League of Lorenzo Fontana "the Salvinian" (This is how Castellini defines it) can help us understand the profound evolution of the party that was once owned by Umberto Bossi and is now owned by Matteo Salvini.
Matteo Castagna does not believe in a Verona «crossroads of unprecedented alliances between traditionalist Catholicism, Northern League and far right": «It is true, however, that there are shared themes. I think of the positions of the Salvinian soul of the League, that Fontana himself represents. And that is sovereignism, dio, homeland and family".
Castagna ventures into complicated theological terrain. His, essentially, does not recognize the Second Vatican Council, the authority of the pope. But he is keen to point out that with Fontana, while expressing legitimate critical observations about moral or dogmatic theology, it is found on many things.
«With Fontana, but also with Salvini, with Meloni, with Forzista Gardini we share general paths. I had a League card until 2009. Today our path occasionally crosses paths with politics, with those who share some of our ideals. Salvini speaking at the World Congress on Saturday, he addressed all those present, advising everyone not to lose their own peculiarity".
Lorenzo Fontana for some strangers to this world, he is just a party bureaucrat. Stuff you wouldn't believe. His is experienced as a career entirely within the party, as if he had been an FGCI official (the young communists) of the seventies and then, let's take for example Massimo D'Alema, he became a leader of the PCI until being appointed Prime Minister.
Lorenzo Fontana, the scandalous minister of family and disabilities, at the center of controversy even in its majority (attacked by the secular Five Star Movement) due to the extreme positions on family matters, women and religion, he was a "perfect Mr. Nobody", until he was elected deputy mayor of Verona, on July 8 2017. Paola Bonatelli challenges disbelief, journalist, anti-fascist, today engaged in welcoming immigrants, when he confesses that he only learned of Lorenzo Fontana's existence when he became deputy mayor.
Naturally Paola Bonatelli exaggerates. Why Fontana a 22 years, the year ran 2002, he had already become deputy federal coordinator of the Po Valley Youth Movement, then in 2009 was elected to the European Parliament, and also in the following legislature he was reconfirmed as MEP until he resigned because he was elected deputy mayor of the city. Elected deputy, he is now family minister in the Conte government.
And therefore a gentleman Nobody we just can't define it. Fontana didn't appear out of nowhere two years ago, he had been in public life for some time, a Verona. Even frequenting the curve of theHellas Verona, a "gym" for making a political career in the far right, in public administration - see the current mayor Federico Sboarina - in city politics that matters.
And if anyone is scandalized by the photos of the minister portrayed together with Forza Nuova leader Luca Castellini, al Family Day, patience. It is Castellini himself who helps us understand the Verona "laboratory"., where right-wing extremism, Northern League and Catholic fundamentalism merge. It is no coincidence that Fontana is considered a "provocative extremist who puts the precarious balance of government into fibrillation".. He is the son and expression of this extremist Verona which today believes it no longer represents an enclave but the whole of Italy (Or perhaps the belly of the country).
That's why it's scandalous, because Verona has always been a right-wing enclave. For those interested in the last century, in the terrible seventies, Verona was at the center of neo-fascist plots and pieces of the state apparatus (“The Rose of the Winds” by General Amos Spiazzi). And then Franco Freda's National Front, New Order and the Ludwing Gang. And today the Nazis of Fortezza Europa survive, the extremists of Forza Nuova or Casapound.
And today this enclave has dissolved, it is no longer a scandalous Italian reality. The country today seems to be an immense Verona. Fontana said that "our people are under attack", hoping for "the return of a Christian Europe".
Today we have sovereignists who want to wrest Europe from the old ruling classes. It's scary that someone like the Forzanova Cavallini has political legitimacy from Salvini's League. It is the same Castellini who says with impunity from the stage of the Hellas Verona party: «We are a fantastic swastika-shaped team. Who allowed this party, whoever paid everything has a name: Adolf Hitler».
Castellini shrugs: «Again with this story? It was a joke. After all, the Prosecutor's Office did nothing".
How ugly this curve frequented by neo-fascists is, by the mayor and by Fontana himself. «Federico the mayor is a friend of mine – says Cavallini – but be careful, it is true that there is a harmony between us, but in Verona there continues to be a mosque".
source – https://www.michelesantoro.it/2019/04/ruotolo-fontana/