Italian lawmaker Giorgia Meloni, President of the Brothers of Italy-National Alliance (Fratelli d'Italia Alleanza Nazionale, FdIAN) | Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images Far-right leader rejects idea of Emma Bonino as Italy’s PM Center-right alliance yet to name an official candidate ahead of election next weekend.

The leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy Giorgia Meloni has rejected the idea of a center-right government led by former European Commissioner Emma Bonino.

“Bonino represents everything I fight against. She's going around saying that Bilderberg is a nice little group and Soros is a nice philanthropist” she said in an interview published Sunday with newspaper Corriere della Sera, referring to the secretive Bilderberg group meetings of elite power brokers, and Hungarian-American financier George Soros.

While Bonino's strongly pro-EU party is running as part of a center-left alliance in Italy's March 4 election, Corriere della Sera reported Saturday that former Prime Minister and center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi is eyeing Bonino's group. Unnamed “leading figures” in his Forza Italia party are reported as saying that among Bonino's party members, there “would be 'potential backers' of a center-right government” and thus could give Berlusconi's coalition the parliamentary votes it needs to form a government.

Berlusconi is leading the center right, but is barred from holding public office due to a tax fraud conviction. Therefore if his coalition wins, it is not yet clear who would be prime minister. Berlusconi has said several times that he has a candidate in mind, but has not yet named who.

The same Corriere della Sera story quoted Meloni, whose Brothers of Italy is part of Berlusconi's center-right alliance, as saying to her party's leadership that if Berlusconi's candidate were to be Bonino, then the party would not back her, adding: “And it's Bonino, believe me.”

Polls suggest it will be a struggle for any of the main parties to form a government after the election, and Italy could be left with a hung parliament. Even if the center right emerges as the largest group, they may not have a majority to approve their choice for prime minister.

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani is one person who has been mentioned as a possible pick, though Berlusconi has stopped short of explicitly naming him and Tajani has so far denied being interested. Meloni has urged Berlusconi to name a candidate before the vote.

Berlusconi appointed Bonino as European commissioner in 1995, but Bonino's stance on migration doesn't match with the rest of the center-right coalition.

Maurizio Gasparri, a leading figure in the center right, said the idea of Bonino as prime minister is like “believing in flying donkeys.”

Newspaper La Stampa reported Sunday that the anti-establishment 5Star Movement, which has thus far rejected forming a coalition with other groups, is now considering the possibility of teaming up with the center left and even Bonino's party.