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Despite a fraud conviction and sex scandal, Italy's 81-year-old former leader Silvio Berlusconi has one last political victory in his sights in general elections less than two weeks away. Temporarily banned from returning to public office himself, the billioBerlusconi, 81, seeks one last win in Italy vote
Despite a fraud conviction and sex scandal, Italy's 81-year-old former leader Silvio Berlusconi has one last political victory in his sights in general elections less than two weeks away. Temporarily banned from returning to public office himself, the billionaire media mogul still hopes to influence the country's political direction by leading a right-wing coalition in the March 4 polls. «I'm pretty confident of the result of the election and going to form a government with our centre-right allies,» he told a rally of youth activists from his Forza Italia party in Rome on Wednesday, in a typically outspoken address. «I can tell you how to stay young,» he added. "I'll tell you the brand of my suppositories.... Read more