By Nick Pisa
An Italian far-right political party is offering parents €1,500 (£1,273) if they name their children after Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini or his wife Rachele.
The tiny Movimento Sociale-Fiamma Tricolore (MS-FT) said the offer was open to residents in five councils where the population is dwindling.
Italians are already being offered €1000 (£800) if they have a child by the current centre-right government led by Silvio Berlusconi in a bid to up the falling birth rate.
MS-FT said the €1,500 would be given on condition that birth certificates are produced for the child in question proving that they are named Benito or Rachele.
They added that the money must be used for cots, clothes, food or other products specifically made for newborns and that receipts and spot checks would be carried out.
The five councils in question were in the south of Italy in the province of Potenza, an area suffering from chronic economic depression.
Vicenzo Mancusi, regional president of the MS-FT said: 'The initiative does not resolve the problem of the region's declining population, but it is a small attempt by a small party.'
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