Overview
- The founding congress took place in Rome on Saturday and drew about 1,500 delegates as Roberto Vannacci presented Futuro Nazionale as a national‑conservative party.
- Vannacci framed the platform around strict immigration controls, large‑scale ‘remigration’ returns, national sovereignty and sharp criticism of the EU, saying ‘‘Italy for Italians’’ and ‘‘If it were up to me, no one should enter Italy.’’
- Several thousand people marched in a pro‑remigration rally in central Rome with participation from groups such as CasaPound and reports of fascist salutes while tens of thousands joined a separate pro‑migrant counter‑demonstration and police kept the events apart.
- Polls put Futuro Nazionale around four to five percent and the party counts eight defecting parliamentarians, which combined with Italy’s three percent electoral threshold makes parliamentary entry plausible and could complicate Giorgia Meloni’s coalition calculations.
- The party claims nearly 100,000 paying members and links with other European far‑right groups have been noted, raising concerns about increased political polarization, the mainstreaming of extremist currents, and how other right parties will respond before the 2027 election.