Piazza del Popolo in the north of Rome is the Rabin Square of the Italians.
The most important political and popular rallies are usually held here.
Four years ago, the populist "Five Stars" left-wing party held the closing rally of the previous election campaign here, which led it to its first victory in its history.
Tonight (Thursday) the square was used for the final rally of the coalition of right-center parties, which according to the polls is expected to win the elections that will be held on Sunday with a great victory, perhaps even overwhelming.
At the head of the coalition is the right-wing party "Brothers of Italy", led by former journalist Georgia Maloney, who will probably go down in history following these elections as the first woman to head a government in Italy.
Another member of the coalition is "League" of Matteo Salvini, who has pledged to work for the transfer of his country's embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
The third partner is the conservative "Force Italia" of Silvio Berlusconi, the 85-year-old billionaire and media tycoon who headed four governments for about a decade before being accused of various crimes and convicted for tax offenses - although he was not sent to prison due to his advanced age.
The conservative "Moderate" party is also a member of the coalition.
Berlusconi bothered himself for the closing event in Piazza del Popolo and was the first to speak under the slogan "Together for Italy" at the early mass victory party attended by thousands of supporters of the center-right coalition, most of them young men and women.
The activists began arriving at the square hours before the start of the rally, on foot or in special buses, waving flags of their parties and balloons with the three colors of the Italian flag, with Italian pop songs playing loudly in the background.
Berlusconi, considered the moderating and balancing force in the tripartite coalition, promised to work for the restoration of "serious and practical Italy, which believes in family values", for cutting bureaucracy, taxes and diluting the justice system.
He repeatedly emphasized Italy's commitment to Europe, to calm the many fears about anti-European policies of the future right-wing government.
"We want to build an Italy where the political opponent is not criminalized," Berlusconi attacked the left and the justice system, which he said persecuted him.
Salvini, who himself is on trial for the illegal detention of immigrants who arrived in Italy from North Africa during his tenure as interior minister and also claims political legal persecution, promised that the next right-wing government would govern "well and together" for five years, in contrast to the political instability of the previous governments, saying that the right-wing government - Center will not invest funds in the reception of immigrants on the island of Lampedusa, but in education, in creating jobs for young people and in strengthening the families with little ability.
He ridiculed the attempt of the governments in Paris, Berlin and Brussels to influence the results of the elections in Italy, and wished success in the elections to "friend" Benjamin Netanyahu and the American Republicans in the midterm elections.
Maloney, who closed the rally, mocked all the "nervous and worried" about the expected victory of the right and claimed that when it comes to democratic behavior it is the left that behaves in an extreme and violent manner.
"We will rule for five years, whether the left likes it or not," she enthused her listeners and promised to take care of Italy's interests when it comes to energy supply - gas and electricity.
Many members of parliament and candidates for the House of Representatives and the Senate also came to the event.
Soed Sabai, born in Morocco who immigrated with her family to Italy 43 years ago, is a candidate on behalf of Salvini's "League", and previously supported the initiative to ban Muslim women from wearing the burqa in public.
"We very much hope to win and bring the center-right camp back to power, because with the left that was in power for the last decade, the situation was terrible," she tells Israel Hayom, "this is my position as an immigrant. The left abuses the issue of immigration. In southern Italy, immigrants are held under conditions worse than animals. We are not interested in illegal immigration. We want immigrants who come with work contracts and not in an out-of-control invasion. We face Islamic terrorism almost every day. With us, Italy will get back on track, with all our friends on the shores of the Mediterranean, including Israel." .
Sabai supports Salvini's extremely friendly attitude towards Israel and also his initiative to move the Italian embassy to Jerusalem.
Not everyone shares the atmosphere of festive euphoria that prevailed last night in Piazza del Popolo.
The leader of the main center-left party, the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, is trying with his last strength to prevent the drift to the right.
In a series of media interviews, he warned that a victory for the right-wing camp led by Maloney would actually be a victory for those who want Europe to leave the European Union.
Leta also claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is working to split Italy and the European Union through the upcoming elections.
"This is a dramatic period in the history of Italy and Europe," Letta stated, "Putin wants Italy to work to divide Europe."
Maloney, who has the most critical position towards the Union, emphasized during the campaign, mainly in interviews with foreign media, that she does not intend to implement the "itlaexit".
Her close advisers also reject this idea, and emphasize that there is another party running in the elections, which promotes the initiative of Italy's withdrawal from the Union.
However, in the capitals of Europe, there is the greatest fear of the consequences of Maloney's victory - the first representative of the Eurosceptic right to win the elections in one of the countries of the Union, after the "Brexit".
Maloney also strongly denies any connection to Putin and Russia, expressed sharp criticism of the Russian war against Ukraine and called for the worsening of Western sanctions on Moscow.
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