22.09.2026, Rome.
Italy’s right-wing camp, which brought Giorgia Meloni to power four years ago, is apparently falling apart, Rossa Primavera News Agency‘s Europe Desk wrote on September 20.
There are now three players in the right-wing camp, and each wants to win a majority of the vote.
The first is Matteo Salvini and his League party. Back in 2019, it was the most popular party in the country, with 34% of the vote; today, it has around 5%. The party is being torn apart by an internal conflict: governors of the northern regions want to return it to its roots, defending the interests of the wealthy North, and remove Salvini from the role of sole leader. Salvini responds that the League must be a nationwide party. At the rally in Pontida this week, the sides agreed not to quarrel publicly, but reached no comprehensive decision about the party’s future.
The second is General Roberto Vannacci. In February, he left Salvini and created his own party, National Future, with a far-right program: mass deportation of migrants and a ban on LGBT topics (organization banned in Russia) on television. According to opinion polls, he has already overtaken the League and is polling at 7–8%. On Sunday, he deliberately held his own forum on the same day as Salvini’s rally to demonstrate who is now the leading force on the right. His ally Gianni Alemanno is directly demanding that Meloni “make a choice”: is she with the sovereigntists or with moderate European parties?
The third is Meloni herself. Her problem is simple: if the League continues to decline, she will need the votes of either Vannacci or the centrists to win in 2027. The first option would alienate Brussels and some voters, while the second angers the radical right. Therefore, early elections as soon as next June are being seriously discussed in Rome: it would be advantageous for Meloni to hold a vote while her competitors on the right have not yet grown stronger.
Italy’s right is entering the pre-election year not as a united team, but as three competing camps. And the key question now is not whether Salvini can retain some level of support, but whether Meloni can keep right-wing voters from moving to the more radical general.
