85-year-old 伊 Berlusconi returns to the Senate after overcoming the stigma of 'Scandal Maker'

The senator is likely… “I will be the next government playmaker”

Former Prime Minister Berlusconi waving to supporters

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(Rome = Yonhap News) Correspondent Shin Chang-yong = Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (85), who is a former media tycoon and is always in the middle of scandals, has been revived in a splendid way.

Forward Italy (FI), led by former Prime Minister Berlusconi, formed a right-wing coalition with Giorza Meloni’s Italian brothers (Fdl) and Matteo Salvini’s alliance (Lega) and won the early general election in Italy on the 25th (local time). .

I was elected to the Monza district senator. The Italian news agency ANSA reported on the 26th that former Prime Minister Berlusconi had won the Senate with more than 50% of the vote.

It is the first time in nine years since he was stripped of his seat as a senator after being convicted of tax evasion in 2013.

Monza, a city in Lombardy, northern Italy, is the home of former Prime Minister Berlusconi as the owner of a professional football team.

He acquired Monza, which was in the third division of Italian professional football in 2018, and achieved promotion to the first division last season.

Local media portrayed former Prime Minister Berlusconi as immortal, returning to Parliament after nine years.

Berlusconi is said to be most likely to take over as chairman of the Senate in the new parliament, which begins on October 13.

Berlusconi served as prime minister three times between 1994 and 2011 after turning from Italy’s top tycoon with a construction and media company to a politician.

In 2011, he was disgraced from his post as prime minister amid allegations of sexual harassment with minors and the Italian financial crisis.

Originally, he was not allowed to hold any public office until 2019, but in May 2018, a Milan court granted his request for a reinstatement and the shackles were lifted.

After a comeback, former Prime Minister Berlusconi ran for president in January of this year, but dropped out of the candidacy due to lack of support from the left.

At the time, it seemed that Berlusconi’s political career was over, but he returned to the forefront of politics in a splendid way through this early general election.

As if ridiculing the evaluation of an obsolete politician, Berlusconi opened a ‘TikTok’ account earlier this month and uploaded a video to create a topic for himself.

With these videos, Berlusconi gained 600,000 followers in a month. One video has more than 1 million views.

Berlusconi, the next leader of the regime, said he would be a father to Meloni and Salvini.

He promised to raise a pro-European voice within the next government, as if conscious of the international community’s concerns about the emergence of a far-right regime.

After voting on the 25th, he said, “I will try to play a role like a playmaker in the government.”

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