Marta Fascina next to Berlusconi until the end, questions about the future of Forza Italia-Corriere.it

After the name of Martha Fascina, 33, usually follows this sentence: «Who has always been close to him». And that’s exactly how she went. Until the end, the companion of Silvio Berlusconi, who died today June 12 at the San Raffaele in Milan, he never left the former prime minister alone. She hasn’t done it since 2020, since they got engaged, but above all she hasn’t done it in the long stay in the Milanese hospital, which lasted 45 days.

Born in 1990, elected with the proportional representation in the Forza Italia list in the Campania 1 constituency, it is she Silvio Berlusconi’s last woman whom he called his “wife” and with whom he celebrated an “almost marriage” in Arcore to formalize the engagement.
One wonders if Forza Italia’s political legacy will now pass to you. In recent months, Fascina had created a new, dense network within the party, also replacing it in symbolic management Licia Renzullifor years the most powerful woman in Berlusconi’s circle.

In April, Tommaso Labate wrote in the Corriere: «No, in the head and in the hands of the fiancée whom the Knight calls “wife” – in agreement and connection with the children – there is the management of all sentimental, human and political traffic in and out of the San Raffaele intensive care unit, where Berlusconi has been hospitalized since Wednesday morning. A full, total delegation that concerns all spheres. Public and private, personal and political, communications on Berlusconi’s state of health and the structure of a party, Forza Italia, experiencing a panic never experienced in the thirty years of its existence. Where it has arrived is understood now. Where it comes from, by now, more or less everyone has it clear. Fascina would never have managed to make a clean sweep of the “hawks” of Forza Italia without it a very close agreement with the Knight’s children, starting with Marina and Piersilvio; and without the tightness of the bolts in relations with Antonio Tajani and with the government wing, which then also produced the return to the scene of Gianni Letta. But it is also true that the thirty-three-year-old native of Melito di Porto Salvo (Reggio Calabria) but raised in Portici (Naples) is no longer the shy, shy and silent girl that the blue parliamentary group has known since 2018, the year of her entry into Parliament ” .

On 3 June, Paola Di Caro wrote: «Fascina seems to become the deus ex machina of everything: she is credited with the will to conquer the symbol of the party, to climb it through men close to her, to kill the enemies, including even the coordinator Antonio Tajani. She vehemently denied, and they describe her as enraged, but it’s clear that something is up.”

In the coming days, some questions will be answered.

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