“Absolutely not”. This is how the president of the Calabria Region and national deputy secretary of Forza Italia, Roberto Occhiuto, responded to «A sheep’s day» when asked whether or not the center-right should ally itself with Roberto Vannacci’s Fnv. If Meloni decided to ally himself with Vannacci «there would be a good discussion within Forza Italia. I would have difficulty running an electoral campaign with Vannacci at my side. I decide what is decided together within FI but I would be, within the party, among those who would say that the alliance with Vannacci is unnatural for the centre-right”, explained Occhiuto in response to a question on this hypothesis.
The attack on populists
«The center-right to which I belong – he underlined – does not pursue populism. Populists like Vannacci are not capable of producing a single solution to the country’s problems. It fans the flames of citizens’ anger. I say ‘never with Vannacci’ then Meloni will decide. But I don’t think there is a possibility that Meloni will make an alliance with Vannacci. Vannacci is voting for everything that can be voted for together with the left, he is rooting for the centre-right to lose in Calabria and in Italy.”