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Silvio Berlusconi - eyeing a seat in Brussels (Photo: European Parliament)

Berlusconi wants to run in EP elections

Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi - a convicted tax cheat – wants to be the lead candidate for his Forza Italia party in May’s European Parliament elections, despite being legally banned from doing so.

“If it will be possible, I will be happy to run,” Berlusconi said Friday, in a public phone call with supporters attending a party rally in Tuscany.\n \nIn August, Berlusconi was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment for fraudulent accounting at his family media firm, Medi...

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Silvio Berlusconi - eyeing a seat in Brussels (Photo: European Parliament)

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