Roberto Vannacci and His Party Futuro Nazionale

Roberto Vannacci, described formulaically as “far-right,” is an Italian general turned politician. He has just announced he has left La Lega, a right-wing party that Matteo Salvini heads, in order to form his own party, Futuro Nazionale (National Future). Right out of the gate, his party is polling at 4%, and is gaining vertiginously in popularity, taking votes away from both La Lega and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia. His anti-Islam message is being rapturously received by large crowds. In the next election, Meloni may have to enter into a coalition with Vannacci’s party. And in exchange for his support, Meloni will have to adopt even more stringent anti-Muslim-immigrant measures than she has until now. More on the rise of Robert Vannacci can be found here: “Former General’s New Rightwing Party Rocks Italy, Becomes a Stone in PM Meloni’s Path to Reelection,” by Paul Serran, Gateway Pundit, June 8, 2026:

Futuro Nazionale’s polling is still modest, but enough to throw the upcomig [sic] election into a turmoil.

Former General Roberto Vannacci has created a new ‘far-right’ party, called Futuro Nazionale, and the movement has become a real problem for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Reuters reported:

“Just four months after deserting Meloni’s coalition ally, the League party, the former general says he has attracted ​almost 100,000 paying members to his new movement, which is polling at around 4% and rising.

That may sound modest, but in a tight election due next year ‌it could be enough to decide whether Meloni wins a second term, leaving her with a difficult conundrum – should she embrace him, and risk scaring away her more moderate supporters, or shun him, and hope that his momentum will fade.”

Vannacci has become known for his uncompromising anti-EU views, while accusing Meloni and her allies of ‘going soft’….

Vannacci’s hostility to the EU reflects his anger at the EU assigning to its members a quota of migrants that each country must take in; he believes, like the former prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, that the EU has no business interfering with what should be the sole prerogative of the nation-state.

Vannacci’s sudden appearance as the head of a new party, one based on a single issue, the large and increasing presence of Muslims in Italy, which he says fills him with alarm, is one more sign that in Europe more people have awakened to the Muslim demographic threat. When he says “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow to see crowds of people praying to Allah in Milan’s Piazza del Duomo. Italian schools must not close for Ramadan, and I don’t want mosques in schools,” he is expressing not just his own fears, but those of millions of his countrymen. Let us hope Meloni, to stay in power at the head of a coalition including Fratelli d’Italia and Futuro Nationale, will adopt his hardline views on Islam and on those whom Oriana Fallaci, that brilliant left-wing journalist, scathingly described as “the sons of Allah.”