Berlusconi: “I deserved an institutional role in this government. After the fall, the doctors told me that I’m alive by a miracle”

«I have not taken on any institutional role in this government even though I deserved it. Also given the fall I took on the second day of the electoral campaign ». This was stated by the president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, on the occasion of the event «Programmes, ideas and priorities of Forza Italia for Lombardy» in Milan. «The doctors – he explained – told me that I am alive by a miracle and that perhaps it will pass. But when I’m sitting or standing I’m still the one who thinks not badly».

The Knight then added in response to those who asked him whether Italy should return to arm itself: “Europe must coordinate its military forces and its defense forces”.

And on the electoral results he commented: «In the last political elections, our votes were only 12 million as the centre-right, 27 million Italian voters in total did not vote, 15 million votes went to other parties that were not in coalition. So we need to win back the Italians». According to Cavalieri, to achieve greater results «We have to carry out an activity that is geographically distributed across all Italian municipalities, with convincing projects and governing the greatest number of Municipalities and Regions possible. So we’re about to do some significant work.”
Directed to Attilio Fontana, the outgoing governor of Lombardy, Berlusconi said he was “very happy with his re-nomination because ‘you will win and we will win'”. And then: «We are grateful to you for the activity of these years. We have followed what you have done: always fielding experience and competence, a reserved and kind trait, and a great ability to work».

On the elections the Cav. he added: «We cannot think of handing over a Region like ours to the alliance between the Five Stars and the Democratic Party, two forces with a very confused identity, united only by a generic leftist matrix and by the fear of suffering, as they will suffer, a ‘absolute defeat’. This was stated by the leader of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, today in Milan at the Palazzo delle Stelline for the launch of the regional election campaign in Lombardy in support of the outgoing candidate, the president Attilio Fontana. «I am sure that the Lombard voters – continued Berlusconi – want to confirm Forza Italia, this is our region, this is where the bet from which everything was born began. We are heirs to the great liberal, Atlanticist and Christian tradition of our country”. “We are pro-Europeans and we represent the EPP in Italy, an alternative party to the left but distinct from the right”,