Italy needs me: Berlusconi stages his comeback

[brooklynite]

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Source: Politico

ROME — As a billionaire property tycoon, media magnate and three-time prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi’s career has already spanned decades.

In recent years, however, his profile has been much diminished. Thanks to illness, he has often appeared at party events by video link, and was banned from public office in Italy for four years after a tax fraud conviction.

Yet now 85, when most people his age would be putting their feet up, the former Italian prime minister has decided to stand for election. “That way everyone would be happy,” he told Rai radio with his inimitable self-assurance.

Bar a miracle, the election on September 25 is likely to produce a triumphant right-wing coalition, with Berlusconi as the kingmaker, buying him a position of influence for the next five years.

Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-needs-me-berlusconi-stages-his-comeback/

[CurtEastPoint]

1. What is it with these egomaniacs? I guess I answered my question: me me me my my mine

[Lithos]

2. I always think of it as:

Me, me, me, me and my money, my money, my money!

[Texin]

3. Somebody needs to take the old dotard's car keys away and send

him to a memory care facility. For god's sake, it's a daily cavalcade of clowns.

[niyad]

4. geez, drop dead already Berlusconi.

[hatrack]

5. Christ, he's 85 years old . . .

Just go away already.

[Javaman]

6. the thing about sociopaths...

they always think they are so important and the only one who can save things.

fuck this crook

[iluvtennis]

7. He was banned from office for 4 years due to tax fruad conviction - shouldn't be allowed to ever run

again.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Trump's brother from another mother

[frazzled]

9. Yeah, Italy needs him like ...

they need a hole in the head.

They need him like a fish needs a bicycle.

[JudyM]

10. Locking

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