Brothers of Italy suspends candidate after online post praising Hitler found

Election candidate for the rightwing party had called Hitler a great statesman' in a 2014 Facebook post

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The far-right Brothers of Italy party has suspended an election candidate after it was discovered he had praised Adolf Hitler and described the group's leader, Giorgia Meloni, as a modern fascist".

Calogero Pisano a coordinator for Brothers of Italy in the Sicilian province of Agrigento wrote on Facebook in 2014 that the Nazi leader was a great statesman".