Berlusconi, Salvini, Meloni forge

(ANSA) - Rome, September 29 - Conservative leaders joined forces last night "for the future of the country," House Forza Italia (FI) caucus leader Renato Brunetta wrote on Facebook Thursday. "(Center-right FI leader) Silvio Berlusconi, (rightwing anti-immigrant Northern League chief) Matteo Salvini and (rightwing Brothers of Italy - FdI leader) Giorgia Meloni entered into an accord yesterday at Arcore (town where Berlusconi lives)," Brunetta wrote. "It is an accord for the future of the country, for the relaunch of a united center-right aiming for government, for a real and credible alternative to the (center-left) Democratic Party (PD) and (Premier) Matteo Renzi". The seven-point joint program of the so-called Arcore accord includes campaigning for a 'No' vote on a December 4 constitutional referendum and undermining the Renzi government by denying it any "crutches". Renzi has forged an unusual left-right alliance with small centrist and conservative parties that splintered off from Berlusconi's FI, after the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), which is Italy's second-largest party after the PD, refused to enter into a ruling coalition with him. Berlusconi was elected in the past on a joint platform with the League and the now-defunct rightwing National Alliance (AN).