Berlusconi to run for Premiership
Photo: Reuters
Silvio Berlusconi says he's running to be premier again - for the good of Italy.
The media mogul confirmed to reporters today that he'll try for a fourth term. Mr Berlusconi quit in disgrace as premier last year after failing to save Italy from its sovereign debt crisis. He has since been convicted of tax fraud and now faces plunging poll numbers.
He withdrew support for Premier Mario Monti's technocrat government on Thursday, increasing the prospects for early elections.
Mr Monti called the political crisis triggered by the loss of Berlusconi's support "manageable" and said his government has rescued Italy from financial disaster.
Me Berlusconi said "the campaign is already on" and he's running "out of a sense of responsibility" toward recession-plagued Italy.
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Alex Ellul
Dec 9th 2012, 13:15
Monti carried out in a quasi-dictatorial way what Berlusconi had been trying to do for a long time, but wth hs opposition putting in all manner of spanners in the wheels. Remeber that there was already a techn-gov way back in the 90's after a socialist bout in gov, only for a tech-gov to pave the way for economic survival. Then Berlusconi went in to continue on the same track, but he was deposed.
Lawrence Fenech
Dec 9th 2012, 10:36
He ruined Italy once and he is out to do it again. Poor italians.
S. Azzopardi
Dec 9th 2012, 10:00
Our democracy is based on the fact that those elected by the people take decisions for the gd of the country. Yet politicians are most often lawyers or doctors thus limiting the field of expertise of gov. Reading reports is not enough. I believe that a technocratic gov with people chosen for their knowledge in particular areas should be the way a gov is formed.
S. Azzopardi
Dec 9th 2012, 09:53
Mario Monti saved Italy from financial collapse and consequently saved the EU and Eurozone. I think Berlusconi is the worst thing that could happen to Italy right now.
Raphael Dingli
Dec 9th 2012, 01:59
He has since been convicted of tax fraud - should he not be in prison? Also, if he is not in prison should a convicted criminal be allowed to run for office?
Pierre Micallef-Grimaud
Dec 9th 2012, 01:38
Silvio Berlusconi only can save Italy
B. Farrugia
Dec 8th 2012, 23:29
You mean for his own good ,
good I mean for parties and orgies.
Jonathan Camilleri
Dec 23rd 2012, 09:46
He's a party guy :)
Mr Anthony Briffa
Dec 8th 2012, 22:33
Possibli kif anqas jaf jisthi.
He thinks that with his millions and the puppets that surround him he is going to be re-elected PM. He will ruin all the good work that has been carried out by Mario Monti, who in the short period of 1 year managed to give back to Italy the standing that it always enjoyed with the big ones of the world. The Italians will regret the day they re-elect him PM.
George Mifsud
Dec 8th 2012, 21:09
Forza Italia e forza Milan - Bravo Silvio -
Franco Farrugia
Dec 8th 2012, 23:42
Emmm.... int ta' veru?
Alex Ellul
Dec 8th 2012, 20:21
He is the only Italian politician who became rich before becoming a politician. All other politicians became rich after having entered politics. In my opinion all Italian politicians should precede Berlusconi in retiring to the hotel
Malcolm Seychell
Dec 8th 2012, 21:30
L unika kumment sura... Berlusconi sar sinjur qabel il politika. l politici fl eu jsiru sinjuri wara li dahlu fil politika.
G G Debono
Dec 8th 2012, 22:56
Confucius he say:
"man who evades tax . he become rich "
Robert Farrugia
Dec 8th 2012, 20:15
This can't be happening!!! How can a person accused with such crimes contest the election?!
Alex Ellul
Dec 8th 2012, 22:39
What crimes? Berlusconi is the only Italian, and most probably also the only EU, politician who became rich before he became a politician. He was forced to enter politics when the communists/socialist tandem tried to close down his TV stations because they were afraid of losing the RAI monopoly. So Berlusconi entered politics to destroy the communist party, and he managed to do just that.
Alex Ellul
Dec 8th 2012, 22:46
So after destroying the communists, the magistrates who had been criminally installed by the socialists/communists during their time in power turned on Berlusconi attacking him like a pack of hyenas attack a buffalo. Instead of going for the multitude of corrupt MP's they went through Berlusconi's life with a microscope, for long years until they found some tax evations, Italy's national hobby.
Mr Alfred Baldacchino
Dec 8th 2012, 22:47
You have said it Mr Farrugia: 'accused'. That is yet to be proven guilty.
Franco Farrugia
Dec 8th 2012, 23:43
Because it's Italy?
R ferriggi
Dec 8th 2012, 19:55
unbelievable.........................
B Attard
Dec 8th 2012, 19:53
Dan vera ma jisthix.No wonder l-EU qeda kif qeda!
Victor Pulis
Dec 8th 2012, 19:29
Maybe instead of four years in prison he'll spend four years in parliament!
Robert Callus
Dec 8th 2012, 19:11
Maybe Zeppi l-hafi should give politics a try too.
Malcolm Seychell
Dec 8th 2012, 19:28
Why not..... The person who destroyed the public transport is having his try too
Robert Agius
Dec 8th 2012, 19:07
So, prisoners are not allowed to vote but can run for president. Excellent! Let's talk about the lack of democracy outside the western world....
Mr Peter Korsten
Dec 8th 2012, 19:04
I'm sure that it's purely a coincidence, that in this photo he looks exactly like Benito Mussolini...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/67/Mussolini_biografia.jpg/220px-Mussolini_biografia.jpg
Victor Pulis
Dec 8th 2012, 18:44
Wasn't he sentenced to prison some months ago?! Or does he own the prison?!
Peter Xuereb
Dec 8th 2012, 17:55
A convicted criminal allowed to run for the highest political office. Modern politics as usual.
Malcolm Seychell
Dec 8th 2012, 17:47
The only one who tried to stop to the EUSSR led by Merkel and Sarkozy..
Joseph Borg
Dec 8th 2012, 17:40
Il politika taljana veru karnival
Anthony Paul Naudi
Dec 8th 2012, 17:39
Ahjar johdilna hsieb il-team tal-football ghax sejrin hazin
A.P.Naudi
Mark J. Magri
Dec 8th 2012, 17:37
If I were to be Italian I would vote for Berlusconi.
He is a great leader and polition.
GRANPINTO
Gianfrancesco Buttigieg
Dec 8th 2012, 17:36
George W. Bush jonqos issa...
Anthony A. Mifsud
Dec 8th 2012, 17:35
We have one like him here in Malta ...
Ninu
Mr C Galea
Dec 8th 2012, 23:10
Sorry but has Ninu been accused of having sex with a an underage prostitute?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20652645
Anthony Paul Naudi
Dec 8th 2012, 17:26
Nahseb li dan kiber issa u tajjeb li jistrieh . Ma nafx kemm jista jgib pajjiz kbir bhal dak fuq ir-rotta tajba, Ahna hawn Malta ma sarx xi bagit b'mizuri ta' awsterita' u still ingorru.
A.P.Naudi
Paul Zammit
Dec 8th 2012, 17:11
hurra per il cavalier !! (toast)
Paul Caruana
Dec 8th 2012, 17:08
LOL
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