Centre right will soon return to govt - Berlusconi

(ANSA) - Rome, September 20 - The centre right will soon return to government, Forza Italia (FI) leader and three-time ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday.
    "If you want to know my forecast. I'm sure that in a not too distant future the centre right will return to government and the leadership of the country for the good fortune of Italy and the Italians who will emerge quite soon from the inebriation they have shown for the (anti-establishment) 5-Star Movement," he said after a centre-right summit in Rome.
    The billionaire media magnate was speaking after talks with the leader of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic League party, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, and the leader of the nationalist Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, Giorgia Meloni.
    Berlusconi said after the centre-right summit that "from this meeting there emerges the guarantee that the centre right is united, it works and it not only exists but it also resists".
    The centre right will run together in all upcoming electoral contests starting with regional elections in Piemonte, Abruzzo, Basilicata and Sardinia and will field a single candidate representing the alliance, a joint statement said after the summit.
    Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni said League leader Matteo Salvini had "clarified that the League is anchored to the centre-right", which also includes FI.
    "The centre right is victorious in Italy, and today's meeting was very positive," she said.
    She said the League was "realising that it is difficult to find an agreement with the (anti-establishment) 5-Star Movement, (M5S) which is structurally on the Left".
    The League is in national government with the M5S.