LEFT: Roberto Vannacci

A new right-wing pro-remigration party led by a charismatic former general and combat veteran is fast rising in the polls in Italy.

The new soaring party is compensating for the lies and failures of the Giorgia Meloni regime. Like similar governments in Europe, her rise to stardom was the result of failed promises to stop the migrant boats.

Futuro Nazionale was founded in February by Roberto Vannacci. He was suspended from the army in 2024 over his politically incorrect bestselling book, The World Upside Down.

Critics claimed was homophobic, racist, and targeted leftists, feminists and Jews.

Mr Vannacci, 57, was elected as a candidate for Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini’s right-wing populist party The League in the 2024 European elections, but left to start Futuro Nazionale. During his military career he served in Libya, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan as a paratrooper.

The fledgling party hit 4.8% in a recent Ipsos poll, just 0.9% behind The League

The party has more than 100,000 members, and gained five new MPs last week who moved across from The League and center-right Forza Italia.

In a TV interview this week, Mr Vannacci compared his group of eight MPs to The Dirty Dozen. He described himself and his party as authentic right rather than far-right in a jab at Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who he said had lost her way.

‘I don’t define myself as coming from the extreme right. I define myself as representing the authentic right,’ he said.

Mr Vannacci, wrote in his book that homosexuals were not normal and blacks could never be true Italians. He was also asked about his support for the policy of remigration. In response, he said that Italy should start building new facilities for migrants to be held before they are deported.

‘If by deportation we mean compulsory movement against their will, yes, for sure. We need to take them to a safe country that will accept them, and from there they will be sent back to their country of origin.’

‘People who do not have a good reason or the right to be here will be removed. And that is the majority of them.’

In response to the savage attempted beheading of a Belfast man by a Sudanese so-called asylum seeker, he said:

‘It is the umpteenth example of violence carried out by people who sell-out politicians claim to be resource for the economy, the umpteenth attack on our society.

‘The facts speak for themselves – if you import the third world, you become the third world.’

In an earlier post about the murder of Henry Nowak, he used the hashtag #whitelivesmatter and criticised leftist Italian MPs for kneeling for George Floyd but not Nowak. Let readers know what you think.

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