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Jessica Phelan

Italy bids farewell to Silvio Berlusconi, but remains in his shadow

Silvio Berlusconi gives a speech in Rome, Italy, in November 2013. The former prime minister died on 12 June 2023 at the age of 86. © REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

Italy held a national day of mourning for Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who was Italy’s longest-serving prime minister since Mussolini, after his death this week. Thousands turned out for his state funeral – but the country is far from united on the man who remade Italian politics in his own image.

The one thing most would agree on is the scale of Berlusconi’s influence on Italy.

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