'We're here to win' Salvini says in Rome

(ANSA) - Rome, March 3 - Rightwing, anti-immigrant Northern League leader Matteo Salvini told supporters in Rome Thursday his party "is here to win".
    He also said he would back Giorgia Meloni from the small rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party for mayor of Rome, but "I can't force her".
    He spoke amid heavy police presence as leftwing activists were also on hand to voice their opposition, displaying a banner that read "Salvini out of our neighborhood, racists and petty pols go away".
    Romans will be called on to elect a new mayor in mid-June.
    Salvini has pulled his backing from former civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso as centre-right candidate, though Bertolaso is still backed by Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party as well as FdI.