ROME –
Silvio Berlusconi has to show that he is back on the political scene, his ideas for the elections of the next year unfolded. The former Italian prime minister (81) presented itself during a meeting of Forza Italia Sunday as a moderate pro-European. He said the party’s success to lead in the vote, probably in march 2018, and promised hefty tax cuts as a centre-right comes to power.
“We predict a large victory for centre-right,” said Berlusconi, who in 2011, due to numerous scandals and lawsuits out of the spotlight and disappeared. In contrast to his allies showed the elderly billionaire, who was fit looking, no Euroscepticus. He wants more, not less, Europe and pleaded for a common defence, foreign, industrial and fiscal policy. “I don’t think we have the euro may leave.”
Berlusconi, who last year a new heart valve got, can’t regeringsfunctie more fulfilling because he in 2013 has been convicted of tax fraud. He hopes that the European Court for Human Rights, that is in november on the case of curves, that is lifted.