The management of Più libri Più Liberi, the Rome fair dedicated exclusively to independent publishing, responds to the post on X where Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni criticizes the review takes place in December at the Nuvola dell’Eur in Rome calling the declaration of anti-fascism that the fair intends to have exhibitors sign as “anti-fascist license”. «This is how the left conceives freedom of thought: you are free, but only if you say what they allow you to say, if you think what they think, if you read what they consider appropriate. The cancellation of non-left-wing ideas, disguised as an anti-fascist struggle, is an old vice of the left, but it is a little story that no one believes anymore. It’s called, simply, censorship. And censorship is incompatible with any democratic society.” And the management of PLPL responds thus «The decision of asking participants to sign a declaration on the sharing of constitutional, democratic and mandatory principles is not censorship at all, but a need for clarity and unity between the different actors present at the fair. It is a document based on institutional and universal references without partisan views, without political references and even less party ties. It is clear that it was not interpreted that way.”
«We regret what is happening: the intervention of the Prime Minister and the general debate that arose obviously lead us to further careful investigation out of institutional respect».
