A very notable return this week to the Chamber of Deputies in Rome: that of the most famous widow in Italy, the last companion of Silvio Berlusconi.
Marta Fascina is a deputy for the Naples region, but she has not been seen on the benches of the Assembly for seven months. First she was at the side of her great man during his last weeks of life, and since his death she was in mourning, holed up in the town of Arcore, near Milan, where she lived with him.
But we had to come back at one point or another. Tuesday, November 7, the thirty-year-old reappeared. Arriving by private jet in Rome with an escort and her dog-sitter, Marta Fascina passed through an annex entrance to the Parliament. Midnight blue suit, ash blond hair pulled back into a bun, and in his hand two attributes that remind us of Silvio: a cell phone case with a photo of the Cavaliere, and on his ring finger the large heart-shaped diamond that he had for him Free.
Berlusconi has not been replaced
In his place in the Senate, one of his most loyal was elected in October: Adriano Galliani, the administrator of the AC Milan football club from the glorious years. The Berlusconi brand was in full force. And this brand, the elected officials of Forza Italia do not know what to replace it with. Today it is Antonio Tajani, 70, who holds the party, Minister of Foreign Affairs, former President of the European Parliament.
And it is precisely in the next European elections that the future of Forza Italia will be decided, today at less than 10% in the polls. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni aims to form an alliance with some of the conservatives in Europe to capture this part of the heritage. Who to replace Berlusconi? For now, his children refuse to enter the arena. They don’t need it to maintain influence, frankly. The slightest statement from Marina or Pier-Silvio Berlusconi is followed very closely. When you own, among other things, half of the general public televisions in a country, you necessarily have a political role.