Words, those of Cirio, which immediately aroused reactions. But it is the president himself – who leads a center-right junta – to clarify: “Nostalgic for fascism? You forget that those from Alba like me have anti-fascism in their DNA. I simply tried to reconstruct historically why in Italy we no longer teach gymnastics . And the reason must be sought precisely in the period of the fascist regime, which exasperated the care of the body. After the fall of the dictatorship, perhaps due to an opposite effect, physical education at school was abandoned. But it certainly did not want to be a praise of fascism towards of which I have always had words of condemnation. Both for family history and, I repeat, for the city I come from: a city that has paid a great deal of tribute to the struggle for the Resistance and is deeply attached to those values. Even 75 years after”.
Returning to the theme that triggered the controversy, Cirio recalls that “When I was regional councilor for Sport with Ferrero and Coni I had developed a project that brought teachers specialized in sport to school”.
Among other things, Cirio had opened his day on social media with a photo that portrayed him together with Liliana Segre at the Teatro Sociale in Alba to wish a happy birthday to the lifelong senator victim of racial persecution.-
