The “patriotic and identity” right-wing of Roberto Vannacci launches its program. After an initial presentation during the constituent assembly in Rome last June 14, a couple of months of fine-tuning were necessary before the online publication of the first part of the “Ideological and Programmatic Base of Futuro nazionale for the Italy of the future” (two more parts will arrive in the coming weeks), focused on economy, international politics, security, immigration, justice, and energy. The horizon to implement the proposals is ten years, two legislatures, explains the general who summarizes the “non-negotiable red lines” as follows: «life from conception to natural death, the natural family, Christian identity, the Roman conception of law». A program (coordinated by former Lega city councilor Lorenzo Gasperini (philosophy professor, considered the general’s ideologue) which, according to Vannacci himself, «is not set in stone but is alive and will be integrated and changed whenever conditions and the situation require it».
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Tax cuts and family quotient
The substantial initial economic chapter starts with fiscal issues, regarding which the party proposes, among other things, tax simplification, a structural reduction of the tax wedge and cuts to Irpef rates, as well as the introduction of a “true family quotient,” which takes into account for tax rate determination “how many people the income actually supports.” The family is at the center of other proposals by the futurists such as “the progressive reduction of VAT on essential goods,” as well as “blue quotas” in public competitions, reserving a portion of the available positions for parents of large families. Among the programmatic goals of Futuro Nazionale is the possibility to allow retirement after 41 years of actual contributions, “through a gradual path compatible with the financial and demographic balances of the pension system.”
Cash limit doubled to 10,000 euros
But it is also SMEs and freelancers at the center of the general’s followers’ attention, who propose among other things the “gradual phasing out of the balance and advance payment system for freelancers and small businesses,” “extension of the cash principle for professionals and smaller companies,” as well as the revision of the deductibility of business costs and the depreciation system, “favoring productive investments, innovation, digitalization, energy efficiency, and capital goods.” As for the cash usage limit, the proposal is to raise it from the current 5,000 to 10,000 euros.
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Strengthening SMEs and strategic sectors
Strengthening small and medium enterprises is also central to FnV’s economic policy, aiming to “create a favorable environment for investments, reducing bureaucratic burdens, facilitating access to credit, supporting innovation, and promoting generational turnover.” Ample space is given to an industrial policy focused on Made in Italy as a permanent strategy to enhance Italian excellences, “supporting the presence of companies in international markets and strengthening the sectors that identify the country’s competitiveness: advanced manufacturing, quality agri-food, fashion, design, specialized mechanics, high value-added craftsmanship, creative industries, and innovative technologies,” the text reads.
Golden power to be strengthened
FnV also promotes strengthening the Golden Power tool, “to allow interventions in cases where acquisitions or corporate operations could compromise critical infrastructures, strategic technologies, production chains, national security, or industrial capacity.” It proposes the establishment of the Sovereign Fund for National Growth as a “strategic investment tool aimed at supporting infrastructure, energy, innovation, advanced technologies, research, venture capital, innovative startups, and capitalization of Italian companies.”
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