He was in intensive care for two weeks, then in the normal ward – now he’s doing better: Silvio Berlusconi left the hospital smiling.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been discharged from hospital after 45 days of treatment. The 86-year-old was driven from the premises of the San Raffaele Clinic in Milan in a car with an escort on Friday. He waved to the waiting journalists.
Berlusconi was prime minister four times
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, whose right-wing government includes Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, tweeted on Friday: “Forza Silvio” (“Forward Silvio”). She expects her coalition partner back “to fight many more battles together”.
Media mogul Berlusconi shaped Italy’s political life for decades. The right-wing populist was Prime Minister four times from 1994 to 2011 with interruptions. Today he sits in the Senate, the smaller of the two chambers of Parliament in Rome.
Berlusconi has been ill for years. At the end of 2020 he fell ill with Corona and pneumonia. In the years before he had to be hospitalized for a urinary tract infection. In 2016 he underwent heart surgery.
