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.
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