What does B. leave to those who fought him? Paolo Flores d’Arcais, Antonio Padellaro, Pancho Pardi speak

For twenty years they talked about him, studied him, invited him, wrote books and made him a media personality even beyond the media coverage of his own empire. Now Berlusconi is dead but his “enemies” remain. Will they feel a void?

They are and they remain “enemies” of Silvio Berlusconi: for twenty years they talked about him, studied him, invited him, wrote books and made him a media personality even beyond the media coverage of his own empire, implicitly recognizing him as the innovator of an Italy which, since 1994 of the “descent into the field”, it has changed irreversibly (for better or for worse, depending on one’s point of view). And, faced with the death of B., the founding father and former director of the daily Fatto and dell’Unità Antonio Padellaro reflects on the paradox: “I remember that one evening, when I met Berlusconi at the same dinner, I said to him: ‘I must admit that you have made the fortune of your friends but also of your enemies'”. For Padellaro, with Berlusconi “a sort of was born personalistic bipolarity: the Berlusconi and anti-Berlusconi. Simul stabunt, simul cadent: Berlusconi’s media antagonists, including Il Fatto, were affected by his political fall”.