
The MEP announces the birth of the first party council group at Pirellone and rejects accusations of being pro-Russian.
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Futuro Nazionale established its first advisory group in Italy at the Lombardy regional council. The group is made up of three councilors: Luca Ferrazzi, Pietro Macconi and Riccardo Vitari.
In 2027 with Futuro Nazionale "we will be protagonists and we will change Italian and European politics". Roberto Vannacci is convinced of this and looks with confidence to the next electoral appointments, the political elections and then also the municipal elections, for example those of Milan where he presented the mayoral candidate, Carmelo Burgio.
"We were the first", claims in a video link from the European Parliament to present, albeit remotely, the newly formed Futuro Nazionale council group to the Lombardy regional council, the first in Italy in a region. With the arrival of Riccardo Vitari, who left the League to join the former general, the minimum number of three councilors to form an autonomous group was reached.
Vannacci, presenting the team, does not spare any jabs at those who criticize and attack him, even from the right. "Everyone is following us, they are accusing us, but by now we have understood how the mechanism works: the higher the polls go up, the more extremist, fascist, racist, xenophobic we become - he explains -.
So I expect that they will soon send the UN peacekeepers against us if the polls continue to grow with this exponential trend." But Futuro Nazionale, claims the MEP, represents "an authentic and pure right and above all a right that is not willing to negotiate and water down those principles that are typical of the right", and cites values such as the defense of the homeland and national interests.
Vannacci then returns the accusations of being pro-Russian to the sender, after the attention was amplified by an analysis by the Financial Times which described him as a possible "Moscow Trojan horse".
"No one will mislead us, so those who write articles in newspapers and who tend to demonstrate without any proof that we are pro-Russian should resign themselves - underlines the former general -, because the National Future draws further impetus from this".
At Pirellone the newly formed FnV group includes the former Morattian Luca Ferrazzi, who is group leader and coordinator of the party for Lombardy, the former Fdi member Pietro Macconi and Riccardo Vitari, who explains that he joined Futuro Nazionale because now in the League "the militants no longer count".
"Once again Lombardy is ahead of all the others", comments Vannacci who adds that in this region "there is a huge interest in this political formation". For now the FnV group at Pirellone will remain in opposition, because "to date there are no conditions on both sides that can make us join the majority", explains Ferrazzi who does not say it explicitly but neither excludes the possibility of further membership.

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