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Roberto Vannacci

💼 President of National Future 🏛️ National Future 🇮🇹 Italia

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Roberto Vannacci (born 20 October 1968) is an Italian general and politician, president of the National Future since 6 February 2026. He served as commander of the Regiment "Col Moschin", the "Folgore" Brigade, of the Italian contingent in the Civil War in Iraq, as well as Task Force 45 during the War in Afghanistan. The publication, in August 2023, of the book The world on the contrary brought it to the center of considerable media attention, followed by polemics and complaints, due to the controversial content expressed on issues such as homosexuality, immigration, feminism and environmentalism.[2] Vannacci was suspended provisionally by the Army following an internal investigation according to which the publication of the book would compromise the prestige and the principle of tertiage of the armed force.[3 Candidate with the League as independent in the European elections of 2024, he was elected. In February 2025 he ceased service in the Army and in April took the League card, which he left in February 2026 to found the National Future. Biography Born in La Spezia, but raised in Ravenna, he is the son of a spezzino artillery captain, while his mother-in-law grandfather was a Sardinian sailor from La Maddalena and his maternal grandmother was an Istrian of Hungarian origin.[4][5][6] He obtained his scientific maturity at the Italian State Institute Leonardo da Vinci in Paris. [7][8] He is married to Camila Mihailescu and has two daughters.[9] Military Career He attended the Military Academy of Modena and the School of Appeal of Turin;[10] he passed the selections to access the unit of raiders of the Italian Army, the 9th Regiment of parachute assault "Col Mobisn", where he completed the training course and obtained the patent of raiders.[10] Between 1992 and 1994, from commander of Operation Somalian incursori, took part in the operation and. Between 1996 and 2000, he served in Bosnia and Herzegovina in IFOR and SFOR operations. It has several degrees in the military field obtained through paths that are inserted in the academic formation of the officers of the Armed Forces: in strategic sciences (continued at the University of Turin), in international and diplomatic sciences (at the University of Trieste), in military sciences (at the University of Bucharest), a master of II level in strategic sciences at the Interuniversity School of strategic sciences of Turin and one in international strategic studies. In 2004 he was detached at the newly formed Special Forces Command (COFS) in Rome, where he held the major operational and staff positions, including the head of Operations office, the chief operational position and deputy commander/chief of state major.[10] After the appointment at COFS in 2009 he was sent to Afghanistan as a military assistant to the chief of state major of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF),[10]. As a major and lieutenant colonel, he conducted special operations in Iraq and Afghanistan: he commanded for two shifts (2005-2006) the Special Forces Task Group in Iraq and was the first commander of Task Force 45 in Afghanistan, deployed in Herat and Farah.[10][12] In 2011, during the Arab Spring, he worked in Libya, supporting the Italian diplomatic authorities. Under this task he organized and completed the emergency evacuation of the diplomatic headquarters of Tripoli and Italian citizens still in the vicinity of the capital.[11] Back in Afghanistan, in 2013, just before the transition from ISAF to Operation Resolved Support, he assumed the position as chief of state of the NATO special forces (ISAF SOF HQ).[11] From 2011 to 2013 he commanded the 9th Parachute Attack Regiment "Col Moschin".[11] Afterwards, from 2014 to 2016, he took over the office of head of international relations at the III department of the state major defense.[11] In September 2016, promoted general brigade, he assumed command of the "Folgore" Parachute Brigade.[13][14] From September 2017 to August 2018, in Iraq, he assumed command of the national contingent of Operation Prima Parthica, as well as Deputy Commanding General for Training of the anti-ISIS coalition under Operation Inherent Resolve.[15] In these roles he was responsible for the training and equipment of Iraqi forces engaged in fighting against the Islamic State. [16][17][18] From 2018 to 2020 he was chief of state of the Division "Vittorio Veneto"[10] while in 2019 he was rewarded by the section of Florence of the National Veteran Union of Sport (UNVS) with the honor "Armando Frigo and Bruno Neri-Lo Sport per la Contingent" for the Missions of Peace abroad.[19] In June 2020, Vannacci, as the employer of the ordinary mission Since December 2020 he has served as a Defence Officer at the Embassy of Italy in Moscow, with accreditations also in Belarus, Armenia and Turkmenistan.[10][23] In this regard he has managed the period characterized by the deterioration of relations between Italy and Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Declared person not grateful by the Russian authorities as a reprisal for the expulsions decided by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the war between Russia and Ukraine, he finished the post in May 2022.[10][24] On 21 June 2023 he assumed command of the Istituto Geografico Militare in Florence.[10] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto Vannacci

🔍 Why the system makes them all like this

Before analyzing this politician, we must understand the system they operate in. It is no accident that they all betray their promises. The system expects it.

📜 The legal articles that allow it

Article 67 of the Constitution
"Every member of Parliament represents the Nation and exercises their functions without a binding mandate."

This rule establishes that once elected, a member of parliament is not legally bound to keep their electoral promises. They can change party, position, or opinion without any legal consequence. Their "conscience" is the only constraint.

Article 68 of the Constitution
"Members of Parliament cannot be held accountable for opinions expressed and votes cast in the exercise of their functions."

This rule guarantees immunity for statements and votes expressed in Parliament. Even if statements are misleading or contrary to public interest, the politician cannot be prosecuted.

Verify on the official source: Senato della Repubblica - Art. 67 | Senato della Repubblica - Art. 68

📚 The theories that explain the system

Gaetano Mosca (1896) — In every society, regardless of the form of government, there is always an organized minority that governs an unorganized majority. Democracy does not eliminate this structure, it merely hides it.
Vilfredo Pareto (1901) — Elites circulate, but the power structure does not change. The people do not govern: only the group of elites occupying the government position changes.
Robert Michels (1911) — Even parties born to represent the masses inevitably end up being controlled by a small circle of leaders. Internal party democracy is an illusion.
"Who says organization, says tendency to oligarchy."

📊 The data that confirms the theories

These are not academic speculations. The data shows the system works exactly as described:

  • Over 90% of the funding of Giorgia Meloni's party comes from contributions paid by MPs themselves, not from the general public. Source: Camera dei Deputati - Bilanci partiti
  • The French government has spent over 2.5 billion euros on external consultants since 2017, a 329% increase in six years. McKinsey supported Macron's campaign in 2017 and then obtained government contracts. Source: Senato Francese - Rapporto McKinsey
  • German Chancellor Scholz has been summoned multiple times as a witness by the parliamentary inquiry committee for the Cum-Ex case, a multi-billion euro tax fraud. Source: Bundestag - Commissione Cum-Ex
  • 18.6% of Italians are at risk of poverty. 9.1% of families are in energy poverty (14.6% on the Islands). 25.6% cannot cope with unexpected expenses. Source: ISTAT - Rapporto povertà
When a politician betrays electoral promises, it is not an individual accident: it is the inevitable product of a system designed to ensure that the elite in power continues to govern. Articles 67 and 68 provide legal protection. The theories of Mosca, Pareto and Michels explain the deep mechanism. It is not the individual politician who is the problem: it is the system.

📋 Electoral Promises

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National Future did not participate in any election campaign. Therefore we cannot check whether or not it is maintained. But we can take the National Future political program, which is still an electoral promise. We will check in the future if they are maintained. We'll list them.

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Freedom, rights and persons Euthanasia He proposes to ban euthanasia and assisted suicide. Disability Vannacci expressed his wish to create separate classes for intellectually disabled people, following criticism, which would not be a discriminatory, but of help. Women Vannacci has defined himself contrary to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy, explaining that he does not consider it a right and that it is necessary to try to convince women not to abortion.[84] In this regard he has undersigned the value manifesto of an anti-abortist association.
He also stated that he was opposed to the introduction of feminism in the penal code during the Meloni government, calling it "an absurdity" and saying that "feminicide does not exist", since, in his opinion, the gender, religion and nationality of the victim should not be able to define the severity of a crime.
It also proposes a concept of the so-called 'Mediterranean patriarchate', based on 'strong helmets' called to engage 'for the construction and defence of society' as well as for the protection of women. LGBT people Vannacci stated that, from his point of view, homosexuality would not be "normal" and, as a result of criticism, justified his position by claiming that he was referring exclusively to the fact that homosexuals are numerically less than heterosexuals.
It proposes to ban on television the presence of homosexual people and LGBT content from 6 to 23 hours.[89] It opposes measures such as equal marriage, adoptions for homosexual couples and the extension of anti-discriminatory rules. He said he had nothing against civil unions,[90] but later proposed their abolition. Vilipendence to religion He proposes to systematically apply Art. 724, having the Order’s Forces checked and sanctioned public blasphemies.

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Environment
On the contrary, Vannacci dedicates a chapter to environmentalism. It criticises what it considers extreme and ideological environmentalism, and argues that environmental protection should be reconciled with economic development and well-being, even through technological progress. In an interview of 2024 it was said "absolutely contrary to ideological environmentalism" and cited as an example the European objective of replacing combustion cars by electric vehicles by 2035.
On global warming, Vannacci said he was not a denialist and never doubted that climate change over the last two centuries was also due to human activity. But he argued that the climate has always changed and that "the planet saves itself", adding that "humanity has never been better". During the 2024 European election campaign, he called the European Green Deal "rich robe", because the cost of ecological transition would be too high for many citizens. He also accused the European Commission of sacrificing entire productive sectors on the altar of green ideology.
Vannacci has been said to be favouring nuclear energy several times. In April 2026 the Italian renunciation of the 1987 referendum, which defined "very politicised", and argued that nuclear power plants are the safest in relation to the energy produced.[97] In the same month, in a confrontation with Matteo Renzi in the Podcast Pulp, declared favorable "to one hundred percent" to the construction of new power plants to make Italy energy independent.[98] The programme also rejects the European directives on the energy efficiency of buildings and on the abandonment of thermal engines, considered as penalizing for the Italian economy. On 5 September 2026, at the Forum Ambrosetti in Cernobbio, Vannacci said that Europe should change its energy system "to sea the Green Deal". In the same month, Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin said he considered his position on the climate incompatible with those of his party: "I do not share the ideological approach.".

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Migration policies
Vannacci has made so-called remigration one of the central themes of his political activity. The concept he supported does not only concern irregular immigrants or those who commit crimes, but also includes foreigners legally resident in Italy who, while working and respecting the laws, are not considered sufficiently assimilated to Italian culture and society. Vannacci argued that some people belonging to cultures and civilizations he considered unassimilar should be repatriated in the countries of origin.
Vannacci also pointed out that he did not necessarily want to repatriate regular immigrants who work and are integrated into Italian society, but argued that the stay in Italy, even prolonged for decades, should not automatically involve the acquisition of citizenship or belonging to the Italian people. According to its approach, immigration should also be subject to criteria of cultural assimilation.
His positions on remigration provoked strong polemics, even for the coercive character attributed by some critics to the concept and for the emphasis placed on cultural assimilation.

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Work It has been declared favourable to make work lawful from 14 years of age.
The “economic principle of St. Paul” is supported in the National Future program: "who does not want to work even eat," attracting the criticism of a group of priests for exploiting the Holy Scriptures.

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Foreign policy Conflict Israelo-Palestinian On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while wishing for the cessation of hostilities to reach peace, he defended the actions of Israel, is contrary to the sanctions towards the latter and has also declared that Palestine "no exists". Russia
Vannacci has assumed favorable positions and admiration towards Russia and Vladimir Putin, matured during the period in which he was a military officer in Moscow and exposed in the book The world on the contrary. He said he did not share the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but he prefers Putin (precising: "not my political man's symbol") at Volodymyr Zelens'kyj, citing the popular support that the first would go. He also stated that he did not believe Putin was responsible for the death of Aleksej Navalnyj, as there would be no objective evidence.

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Report with fascism According to David Allegranti, Vannacci would deliberately conduct a communicative campaign based on "politically incorrect", seeking the vote of the nostalgics of fascism not explicitly but playing on a certain ambiguity. He refused to call himself anti-fascist, claiming that "you can't be against something that no longer exists," said Benito Mussolini "has done good things" and has defined it several times as "a statist", justifying that definition, after criticism, with the fact that he has held office of state.
Other controversies are exhorted during the election campaign for the Europeans of 2024, when Vannacci released a video poll in which he invited to draw "one tenth" on the League symbol. Accused of having wanted to celebrate the Xa Flottiglia MAS at the service of the Italian Social Republic, Vannacci was justified by saying that he was referring to the special unit of the Regia Marina that operated until 1943. He made similar references on later occasions.

❌ Documented Misdeeds

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Judicial proceedings

Pencil charges and scam
On 24 February 2024, he was investigated for pawning and fraud by the military prosecutor, concerning refunds and allowances received during his period as a military officer in Russia from February 2021 to May 2022. The ordinary prosecutor has opened a file and the accounting magistrate has opened an investigation for heroic damage, then was prosecuted by the prosecution because the fact does not exist.

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Accusation of false public act

On 28 June 2024 he was registered in the register of the inquiries of the prosecutor of Rome for false ideology in public action, in relation to some statements signed by Vannacci during his post as a defense officer at the Embassy of Italy in Moscow. On 17 April 2025 the GIP of Rome welcomed the request for storage.

Accusation of racial hatred and defamation of an army member

On February 26, 2024, following various complaints submitted by some associations, the prosecutor of Rome opened an investigation for racial hatred involving Vannacci on some statements in the book The world on the contrary. In July the proceedings were filed by the GIP of the military prosecutor of Rome, except for a alleged disfamation of a military mentioned in the book, on which the same prosecutor had to investigate. The prosecutors considered that there was no crime and asked for archiving, but the question was not accepted by the GIP that required forced imputation. On 12 December the military GUP of Rome prosciolto Vannacci because the fact does not exist.

Disability

Vannacci expressed his wish to create separate classes for intellectually disabled people, following criticism, which would not be a discriminatory, but of help. The proposal has been harshly criticized by politicians throughout the parliamentary period, including members of the League, and the Italian Episcopal Conference. Later, Vannacci reconfirmed his claims by stating that helping disabled people in the most specific way may, at times, "do not coincide with putting them together with other people with different characteristics" and that in order to guarantee them particular moments of attention they would serve different structures.

Quotes by Roberto Vannacci

First definition of statist is a state man, so Mussolini is a statist. The encyclopedia Treccani says.
[On Paola Egonu] I have never had any doubts about your Italian citizenship and I am personally and convincedly proud that you represent our tricolor with your sport excellence but this cannot visually conceal your origin of which, I am convinced, she herself goes proud.
If I see a homosexual, I'm not like Dracula crucifix.
What is critical is the exhibitionist ostentation of this taste, which often tends to prevaricate what is the common sense of the majority. Gay Pride? If they want to make a parade for Rome or Turin, they do it. There would be a question because they want to show up. The gay Pride says to claim rights, but also on this should be discussed. Rights are not differentiated, rights are for everyone. There are no rights for gays, rights for heterosexuals, rights for blondes, deaths, blue eyes, rights for people. It's an exhibitionism.
Putin killed Navalny? Who says that? When they prove it to me with objective evidence, I'll believe it.
Putin in the last twenty years, ruling Russia, has led to an explosion of well-being, wealth in his nation. Enjoy popular support, which Zelensky would seem to lose day after day. And so if I compare the political activity of the two men, I prefer a person like Putin. [...] Zelensky in his previous life made the comedian, it is only recently that he does the politician, and I must say that he does not do it with great success: he totally lost the sovereignty on the state he represents.
[Ultime famous words] I'm here today, who would have told you two months ago, three months ago. Don't you hear these gentlemen? "Tanto Vannacci leaves, Vannacci takes the taxi, Vannacci uses the League as if it were a sweater." No gentlemen, I'm here, I still believe in the word given and honour. I still believe it. And we'll all go on together, and they won't stop us.
To us Italians the removal of dictators has never brought well. [«Even Italian dictators? » I am referring to the last 50 years and anyway [the Italian ones] we have not laid them.
Gays here in Italy have all the rights: if they go to the hospital they cure them, if they go on the street they can safely drive, if they go to school they have teachers.
There are real equality instances. Men and women are equal, there is no need to protect anyone against others and therefore they must all be subject to the same rules: there is no feministration. A crime is no more or less serious on the basis of sex, skin color or religion of those who commit it or of those who suffer it: this is true equality. [...] Just as there is violence on women there is that on the elderly and there is no eldermancy. I'm against femicide. It's a murder like everyone else. There is no need for a specific case.

From the book "The World to the contrary"

Dear homosexuals, you are not normal, make a reason! Not only does Nature demonstrate that to all "normal" healthy beings it allows to reproduce, but society demonstrates it: you represent a very small minority of the world. When you get married by flaunting your abnormality, people are amazed, confirming that the canons of what is considered usual and customary you overcome them. (Chapter IX, p. 243)
We have to resort to a foreign idiom and call them gay because the existing vocabulary until a few years ago in the dictionaries, which we swept through turning the thin pages with the tip of the humid index, are all considered inappropriate, if not even vulgar and offensive. Pederast, inverted, sodomy, fennel, faggot, richo, buliccio, feminin, bardassa, caghineri, cupio, buggerone, checca, homophile, uranista, culattone are now termed as court, hate speech, by incitation to hatred and discrimination and classified by the popular multimedia encyclopedia Wikipedia as "lepsycho of homophobia". All we have to do is call them gay by importing another foreign word into our Italian lexicon, but by paying attention to the tone of the voice and the expression of the face while we pronounce the tri-literal neologism because we could be perceived as aggressive, excluding and denigrating. In fact, it is better not to call them at all because first we want to normalize the concept of homosexuality, but at the same time we complain if this becomes a distinctive sign. (Cf. IX, p. 259)

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Vannacci is the anti-Community

Vannacci is not simply a political opponent. It's the anti-Community of Sovereigns**. All its principle is the denial of personal sovereignty. Each of his words is an attack on the very possibility of a society of free and equal people. *Community of Sovereigns* is a project **revolutionary** because it proposes a system never realized: widespread sovereignty, unanimous consent, original dignity, material self-sufficiency, time freed. Vannacci is a project **reactionary*** because it proposes a return to the past: hierarchy, obedience, exclusion, war, boss. The fundamental difference is this: **We want to build a single floor building. Vannacci wants to build a tower with him on top.** And as long as there are towers, there will be people who look down with fear, who breathe dust, who do not see the sun. *Community of Sovereigns* is the only possible answer. Not because it's perfect, but because it's the only one that doesn't reproduce past stunts*. Vannacci is the past that returns. We are the future that has yet to be born. And the future must first disassemble the past. Piece per piece. Word by word. Vannacci is a man who uses old words for old projects. *Community of Sovereigns* uses new words for a new world. **The choice is clear. And it doesn't admit neutrality. ♪ ♪ Moscow, Pareto and Michels had described the problem. The book proposes the solution. Vannacci is the confirmation that the problem still exists. And that the solution is more urgent than ever.

⚖️ Final Balance

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