from the millionaire cheque, to his future in Arcore and at the top of Forza Italia-Corriere.it

The inverted commas around the word “wife”, that bond that Silvio Berlusconi in his latest public releases defined with this term but family law did not,
they kept her away from the liturgy of the will.
He was not present – not even in connection, as the children would have been – at the unveiling of the Knight’s last wishes. On the basis of the civil code, he did not have titles to be together with the rest of the legitimate heirs.

But in the will of the former Prime Minister Marta Fascina there would be, and how.
The conditional is dictated by the prudence that anyone – starting with the sources closest to the family – maintains while waiting for the document to be given the trappings of officiality by the heirs,
who have decided by mutual agreement to make it public in every detail. And there would be a separate chapter, a sort of additional letter with the provisions in favor of Fascina, that Berlusconi would have added to his last will put in black and white for some time.

The Fascina chapter, complete with a supplementary letter, is intended to definitively close that toto-figure which – far from the most delicate dossiers such as the structure of Mediaset and the balances in Mondadori and Mediolanum – has attracted anyone’s attention like a magnet , annoying family members and first of all the person concerned. It was obvious that this was the case, it could not have been otherwise after the celebration of the engagement, the ordeal at the San Raffaele hospital without ever leaving Berlusconi, the rise of his area in Forza Italia. And the closest friends of the deputy, those who in the most dramatic days of mourning had free access to Villa San Martino, those with whom she confided on several occasions, had warned her. “Whatever the amount is,” one of them had told her, “get ready. They’ll say you’ve had too much or too little, never the right.”

Whether it’s the one hundred million euros on which many have bet, something more or something less, well, the figure is not intended to close the story. There is the residence at Villa San Martino, with an area of ​​the property where Fascina will be able to live for the next few years; and also the hypothesis that that or other real estate properties may have become part of the integration to the will that Berlusconi wrote especially for her.

And then, of course, there is the party. With that load of question marks that refers to a role that doesn’t exist right now, who knows tomorrow. Fascina and its area support Antonio Tajani’s run for the presidency, in all that risk of forced steps that Forza Italia will have to face between now and 2024; and, in the debate that has been triggered on the structure of the majority, they are firmly anchored in the government of Giorgia Meloni. “If Fascina asked for a job for himself, no one would deny him”, is the most popular refrain among the Azzurri. But will he ask or not? At the end of next week, something will be understood. For example whether he will materialize in the flesh or not at the party’s national council. In which, as a deputy, you are a member by right.

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