(ANSA) - Rome, August 9 - Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, on Friday called on League leader Matteo Salvini to form an alliance in view of early elections after he pulled the plug on the coalition government with the 5-Star Movement (M5S). "We form alliances before the elections, not after, because we want to be clear," Meloni told RAI radio.

"We are the most coherence party. We are concrete and reliable.

"I don't think Salvini will run alone.

"It wouldn't make much sense to have another government formed with power games after the vote.

"It would be better to have an alliance that the Italian people have been called for for months".

Meloni did not mention the other party that traditionally is also part if the centre-right alliance in Italy, Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia.

