Friday, March 29

Berlusconi and his adventures have returned


These days Silvio Berlusconi is in a very good mood. There are reasons. As a political figurethe tycoon and leader of the center-right Forza Italia, the formation he created to get into politics in 1994, he’s dying but not dead. they have certified the elections that were held last Sunday. Berlusconi will have negotiating power (or blackmail, depending on how you see it) in a possible government led by the far-right Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy.

But there are more reasons. On Thursday, Berlusconi turned 86 years old. She celebrated it with a party at his residence in Milan, Arcore, in which his children, his grandchildren and the deputy participated. Marta Fascina, his girlfriend and ‘almost a woman’, as the Italian media call it. The latter for a symbolic wedding which was held between the billionaire and Fascina last March. She, by the way, he is 53 years younger than him and it is the last one that he officially presents, after the also very young Francesca Pasquale, his second wife, Veronica Lario, and his first, Carla Dall’Oglio.

But no one is shocked. The ‘pedigree’ of the old politician is well known. Berlusconi has starred in all kinds of scandals political, judicial, financial and even sexual. He has laughed at Angela Merkel’s features, and has called kapo (collaborationist prisoner in Nazi Germany) to the German socialist Martin Schulz. He was the one who asked for the release of a minor detainee who was a friend of his, saying: ‘Free her, she is the niece of (the then Egyptian president) Hosni Mubarak”. He was the one he labeled the judges “red” of the Italian Constitutional Court and was linked to the mafia. And he did it all while transforming Mediaset into a media empire, he was the owner of one of the main soccer clubs in Italy, Milan, and he kept elbowing left and right to stay in power. So it also became longest serving prime minister of the republican history of Italy.

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About Berlusconi, who is also one of the richest men In Italy, an incalculable number of articles and books have been written, and tens of thousands of photographs have been published. However, one of the most interesting descriptions of the billionaire is due to the journalist Indro Montanelliwho said that Berlusconi is an unusual example of sincere liar. Proof of this has even been his infinite hair transplants, skin tightening, eyelid surgeries and the extensive use of botox. “I do this out of respect for others,” he came to say at a press conference in 2004. That is, long before the world knew the also histrionic donald trumpthe former president of the United States.

His last government fell in 2011, but he never really strayed from politics, and now he’s back in another skin. He will hardly occupy a position that involves daily public activity, but as he will always give something to talk about. It will be a presence in the shade, behind the scenes.


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