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).
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