Silvio Berlusconi: Former Italian prime minister in hospital

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been taken to hospital in Milan.

The 86-year-old billionaire media tycoon was discharged from hospital final month after six weeks of remedy for a lung an infection linked to power myelomonocytic leukaemia (CML).

Berlusconi’s well being has markedly deteriorated in recent times, with open-heart surgical procedure in 2016 and quite a few hospital admissions since contracting COVID-19 three years in the past.

He led the nation from 1994-1995, 2001-2006 and 2008-2011.

In his final time period in workplace Italy got here near a Greece-style debt disaster and he confronted quite a few scandals, most notably round his infamous “bunga bunga” events.

Although he doesn’t have a direct position in authorities, his Forza Italia celebration is a member of Prime Minister
Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition.

He returned to the Senate at a common election final September, practically a decade after being banned from holding public workplace over a tax fraud conviction.