Berlusconi wants to be Italy’s next president, and he might win

Silvio Berlusconi governed Italy as prime minister three times between 1994 and 2011 at the head of various coalitions, for a total of nine years. Italy’s economy and reputation were in steady decline the whole time, but his base never faltered in its loyalty

Silvio Berlusconi, pictured in 2003, more or less withdrew from public view after open-heart surgery in 2016, but here he is again, still eager for power, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 19, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—It was looking like a good year for democracy. Donald Trump is gone in the United States, at least for the moment, and other populist demagogues in power seem about to lose it. Boris Johnson in the United Kingdom is teetering on the brink, Viktor Orbán faces a united opposition in H...

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