More than 90 years after Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy with his March on Rome, a neo-Fascist party is planning to converge once again on the capital.

The Forza Nuova (New Force) party wants to stage the march next month on the anniversary of the show of muscle that brought Mussolini to power, but the plans have sparked a furious reaction from mainstream parties.

A group of 45 MPs from the governing Democratic Party has appealed to the interior minister to stop the march, saying it will incite “intolerance, racism and hate”.

While only a tiny minority of Italians are sympathetic to Fascism, the plans for the march come amid a climate of growing intolerance towards migrants, as the country struggles to look after the 100,000 rescued in the Mediterranean this year alone.

The recent gang rape of a Polish tourist on a beach on the Adriatic coast, allegedly by a group of immigrants, has further inflamed tensions and anti-migrant rhetoric.

The neo-Fascist demonstration is due to take place on October 28, the anniversary of the original March in 1922, when bands of Fascist Blackshirts gathered outside Rome.