A draft bill to outlaw the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, which is represented now in the Italian Parliament, was defeated in Parliament’s Interior Affairs Committee here yesterday. But the chief sponsor of the measure plans proposing the bill before a plenary session of Parliament, hoping it may still be adopted.
The principal backer of the bill is Ferruccio Parri, president of the Committee for National Liberation and Italy’s first Prime Minister after the liberation of Italy following World War II.
A coalition of Democratic Christians and neo-fascists defeated the draft bill in committee. The opponents of the Parri measure insisted that passage of the bill would disfranchise a party already represented in Parliament, thereby creating an undemocratic precedent.
They also held that, under the Italian Constitution, only the courts can rule on outlawing a party under a constitutional provision prohibiting revival of the fascist party. Mr. Parri insists, however, that he will continue pushing for the bill in Parliament as a whole.
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