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Silvio Berlusconi, former head of the Italian government died on Monday June 12 at the age of 86. Sultry figure of the Italian right, does his death mark the end of an era? This is the subject of Talk franceinfo. Every evening from 6 p.m., Manon Mella and her guests debate with Internet users on the franceinfo Twitch channel.
Former Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, figure of the Italian right, died of leukemia at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, on June 12, 2023. Nicknamed “Il Cavaliere”, the former Italian head of government for nine years in total, profoundly changed the Italian political landscape, in particular by founding the conservative party Forza Italia in 1994. His career was marked by political and financial scandals.
Ludovic Pauchant receives Ludmila Aconehistorian at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne in the Talk to discuss it.
What legacy for contemporary Italy?
Businessmen, media magnate, politician and former owner of the AC Milan football club, Silvio Berlusconi was at the heart of many scandals. He leaves behind him a very particular political style which has even sometimes been defined by a neologism: “Berlusconism”. Demagogue, “bling-bling”, ultra-liberal: Silvio Berlusconi is the figurehead of a form of populist government that has been imitated in other Western democracies in recent years.
So, what legacy does Silvio Berlusconi leave to Italian political life? How is the right reconstituted around this imposing figure? Is Berlusconism an ideology that can last beyond its initiator?
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