Futuro Nazionale (FN), the party launched by former special forces General Roberto Vannacci last February, has already become the fourth largest party, after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia, the Democratic Party and the M5S, according to the latest polls that give him over 8% support nationally. Vannacci pursues a rightwing populist agenda, anti-EU, anti-Green, anti-war and anti-immigrants. He became popular through his book “Il Mondo Alla Rovescia” (The World Upside Down), which received immense negative coverage by mainstream and liberal media, so that Vannacci says he is thankful for that, otherwise nobody would have known him.
At the last European elections, Vannacci ran in a Lega slate and got over 530,000 votes, second only to Prime Minister Meloni. Lega head Matteo Salvini had made him a deputy secretary general of the Lega, but eventually Vannacci left the Lega and created his own party. Now the Lega has collapsed to 4%.
