 Among other things, The Right was strongly supportive of direct democracy and of presidentialism.Its economic policy was a mixture of statism, such the strong support for the welfare state and the introduction of the so-called "social loan" ("mutuo sociale") for young people in order to enable them to purchase a house, and of libertarian proposals, such as the introduction of the flat tax and fiscal federalism.Party leader Francesco Storace maintained that his party had nothing to do with the far right and instead he says to take inspiration from Indro Montanelli, a conservative-liberal journalist and editor of "Il Giornale" who declared "I am a right-winger, but this is not the right-wing I dreamt of".