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“Let’s say it’s not one of my best birthdays», He responded to his closest family and friends, as if he wanted to remove them from the umpteenth concern for his emotional state and his health, which in recent times go hand in hand. With others, especially among the veteran parliamentarians of Forza Italia, with whom he shared part of the last quarter in politics, he got carried away: “It may be my worst birthday, as I recall.” Said by Silvio Berlusconi, who turns eighty-four years of the lights, the music and the people around him, nailed in three rooms of Villa San Martino by Covid-19, the phrase means many things. If yesterday is his “worst birthday”, then it means that it is worse than that of 1995, the first after Umberto Bossi’s change of course and the first expulsion from Palazzo Chigi; worse than 2011, when the crazy summer of the ECB letters and propagation would have accompanied first the laughter of the Merkel-Sarkozy duo and then the handover of the bell to the new Prime Minister Mario Monti; and even worse than those of 2013 and 2014, respectively the first after the final sentence and the first spent on social services.
Follow in time
It happens that the adjective “worst”, especially combined with a bittersweet anniversary, accompanies the word “birthday” when the gift you are waiting for does not really arrive. Berlusconi expected one of the result of the hyssop to which he was subjected on Monday night, the day before yesterday; did not arrive. The virus is decidedly less invasive than the days of hospitalization in San Raffaele, when the viral load reached – Berlusconi dixit – record levels. But the account with Covid-19 has not yet been closed. Maybe it will be in the next few hours, in the next few days, who knows. But for now it is an open account. In recent days, his instinct has prompted him on several occasions to assess whether there were margins to finish the hospital stay; his head led him to follow the advice of doctors, for whom there is no need to go to the hospital. Last night Adriano Galliani had given the news that “The president’s swab is negative,” they denied news from well-informed sources.
The illness of the former prime minister
Esteem for Renzi
The hourglass that marks the time of Arcore, where he has the company of Marta Fascina, it seems immobile. And the safe space reserved for him in his home – the bedroom upstairs, the study and the living room downstairs – feels like a prison to Berlusconi. During his birthday, and in the days before him, the Knight spent part of his time on the phone not only with his party and coalition colleagues, but also with political opponents. Among these also members of the Executive and the majority in general, with whom he spoke, in some cases, not about politics but about real life. A few days ago, for example, you received a call from Matteo renzi. The gossip could imagine who knows what alchemy about the future prospects of FI and Italia Viva. But no, they talked about something else. With Berlusconi who closed the call like this: «Matteo, you know that for you I don’t just have political esteem, right? I have always had a deep affection for you and that affection still exists ». The affection of the adversaries is basically the only positive legacy of these weeks of estrangement. “I didn’t know they loved me so much, outside the center right”He repeated yesterday before ideally blowing out the candles on a cake that did not exist. Perhaps the only thought capable of dissipating the sadness of the moment of loneliness. Even if the thought disappears. Like birthdays.
September 29, 2020 (change September 29, 2020 | 23:51)
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