who is the former chancellor that Berlusconi calls “dad” – Corriere.it

In the small circle of people who have access to Berlusconi’s bedside at San Raffaele, from the other day there is also Horace Fascina, the father of the partner of the leader of Forza Italia, Marta Fascina. Since the bond between Berlusconi and the young former employee of the Milan press office, who later entered Parliament with FI, was born, the Fascina family members have always kept a very low profile. Never a public statement, a comment, a photo. Horace apparently was not even present in March 2022 to the symbolic wedding ceremony at Villa Gernetto, although among those who had access to the organization of the party it transpires that in the list of guests there was someone called Orazio. No indiscretion, however, on the surname and therefore no certainty whether the bride’s father attended the event or not.

Whether or not it was that day at Villa Gernetto, Orazio Fascina, as well as his ex-wife Angela Della Morte, a retired teacher, has however always shared and approved his daughter’s decision to enter into a relationship with Silvio Berlusconi and then to move permanently to Arcore, where he is now officially resident. Horace, then, went even beyond the simple approval of the bond between his daughter and the former prime minister. With him he formed a deep friendship which in a short time consolidated to the point that today Berlusconi affectionately calls him dad.

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No surprise, therefore, among those who are aware of the relationship between the two, that today Orazio Fascina has temporarily moved to Milan. Also to be next to his daughter who is practically living at the San Raffaele these days. After all, Orazio Fascina today has no work commitments that could prevent him from moving where he wants and for as long as he wants. In 2019 he retired, after having worked for many years as a clerk at the Court of Salerno. The one of employee of the judicial administration been for him a sort of second professional lifewhich began when the family returns to Naples (city of which Fascina’s father was originally from) from Calabria, where for a period Orazio and Angela decided to move, settling in Melito Porto Salvothe town in the province of Reggio where there were already other relatives and which appears as the town of birth on Marta Fascina’s documents, even if she remembers it little because she left it when she was little more than a child.

In Melito his father had set up together with his brother an insurance agency that quickly became one of the most quoted not only in the province of Reggio Calabria, and which is still active and successfully managed by Orazio’s grandchildren today. Then the court call – difficult to reconstruct today whether by virtue of an application presented before the transfer to Melito Porto Salvo or a competition in which Orazio decided to participate, in search of a stable and safer occupation – and the return to Campania. But in that same period also came the separation from his wife. Orazio Fascina, in fact, has never lived in Portici, where Marta lived with her mother and where she attended high school, graduating from the classical high school. The relationship between the former chancellor and his daughter (as well as the one with Claudius, the son), has never been affected by it. It is therefore normal that she is now next to her.