The 22 days of Fascina at the San Raffaele with Berlusconi-Corriere.it

“Now that the worst seems to be behind us and that the situation is calm, you could even go out for a few hours, maybe go home…”, suggested a few days ago one of the girls from the healthcare staff with whom she has bonded in recent weeks moreover. «Thanks but I prefer to stay here. When we go out, we will all go out together», she immediately replied. She is Marta Fascina, the fiancée Silvio Berlusconi calls his wife. The partner who has made a solid pact of family trust with the children of the Knight and a pact of political alliance with Antonio Tajani and Gianni Letta in Forza Italia. Since April 5, the day the former Prime Minister was hospitalized at San Raffaele, she has practically never moved from the hospital and in fact has never abandoned the guard of the three hundred square meters of the apartment on the sixth floor of the «Diamante» pavilion reserved for payers.

He kept in contact with the doctors, spoke with the health personnel, filtered visits and incoming and outgoing phone calls, as well as messages of proximity directed to Berlusconi, from telegrams sent by post to letters to simple WhatsApp; and in doing so, he managed the link between the president and the party, including the packaging of the message that the former prime minister wanted to send to the press on Liberation Day. The latest updated count reads twenty-two straight days for Fascina inside the San Raffaele, three weeks plus one day; and obviously it is not definitive, given that the more optimistic parliamentarians who spoke to Berlusconi on the phone hope that his resignation and return to Villa San Martino will be “from one week to ten days away”, even if obviously these are decisions that will be taken over time of the time, without hasty announcements and without anticipations.

To hear the most mischievous reconstructions, in the most delicate phase of Forza Italia’s life and also that of Silvio Berlusconi, Fascina selected a circle of “collaborators” (inverted commas required) who couldn’t be more trusted: his parents. In the last few days, the presence of his father, Orazio, has also been joined by that of his mother, Angela Della Morte. In addition to Berlusconi’s immediate family members and lifelong friends who can be counted on the fingers of one hand – Fedele Confalonieri, Gianni Letta, Adriano Galliani – they are the only ones who have had access to the Cavaliere’s bedside. Who – ten days out of intensive care and judged by the latest medical bulletin to be within “a stable clinical picture, characterized by an optimal and convincing recovery” – has begun to probe the pulse of the most trusted force leaders and parliamentarians in waiting for the return to the scene.

Return that is expected, in «remote» mode, at the Forza Italia national convention scheduled for 5 and 6 May next. By that date, a parliamentarian who received a telephone call from him yesterday swears, “Berlusconi could already have returned to Villa San Martino”. If the optimistic forecasts turn out to be correct, in short, exactly one month after hospitalization, the former prime minister could be resigned. That would also be the date of Marta Fascina’s release from San Raffaele. Not a minute before.