Marchini won't be centre-right candidate

(ANSA) - Rome, February 8 - Businessman Alfio Marchini will not be the centre right's candidate in Rome mayoral elections in June, Northern league leader Matteo Salvini said Monday. He said Marchini had been "vetoed" by the leader of the small rightwing Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) party, Giorgia Meloni. Salvini, former premier and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi and Meloni met Monday to discuss the touted candidacy of Marchini, an independent who made an unsuccessful run for mayor in 2013 and is now heading up another civic ticket to replace former Democratic Party (PD) mayor Ignazio Marino, forced out by the PD over an expenses scandal last year.