Politics

At the Forza Italia convention

The video message Silvio Berlusconi: "I saved our democracy, our freedom"

"Here I am, I'm here for you, in a suit and tie after so many days," he began in his first appearance from hospitalization at San Raffaele.

06/05/2023

The president of Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi, hospitalized at the San Raffaele since last April 5, appeared on Saturday, May 6 in a video recorded for the Forza Italia convention that began the day before. Sitting at a desk, with the Italian and European flags behind him, he began, in a slightly tired voice: "Here I am, I'm here for you, in a suit and tie after so many days".

"A few nights ago - he said - here at the San Raffaele I woke up suddenly with a question in my head that I could not send away. ' But why am I here? But what am I doing here? What am I fighting for here?' Next to me watched my Marta (Fascina, deputy and his partner, ed). I asked her the same question. 'Why are we here?' And she told me, 'We're here because you've worked so hard, you're working hard to save our democracy and our freedom.' And I want to remember this, I want to tell you what I thought and went through, even if I know that doing so will really excite me".