Ex-premier and centre-right
Forza Italia (FI) leader Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday pledged
to fulfill a long-time vow to build a bridge over the Messina
Straits while on the stump for Sunday's Sicilian elections.
The three-time former premier said the plan to build a road
and rail link between Sicily and mainland Italy had been sunk by
a previous centre-left government and he would resurrect it.
He also pledged to build a casino in Taormina.
Berlusconi said a Marshall Plan was needed for the Italian
island, putting in "at least two billion euros a year".
The FI leader added that a government deal between FI, the
rightist populist Northern League (FN) and the rightist
nationalist Brothers of Italy (FdI) would be sealed at a dinner
with FN leader Matteo Salvini and FdI leader Giorgia Meloni in
Catania tonight.
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