Berlusconi, incoming ninth granddaughter, daughter of Pier Silvio: “I am happy” – BBC

Silvio Berlusconi (La Presse)

Silvio Berlusconi will become a grandfather for the ninth time. He announced himself by connecting phone to an electoral meeting in Milan: “A few days ago I heard that I get the ninth grandchild, a girl of my son Pier Silvio (Managing Director of Mediaset, ed.). I am an absolutely happy grandfather. ” A slip of the tongue by the former prime minister, as was promptly corrected by his entourage, because waiting is the daughter Eleonora. After the announcement Berlusconi also uses this opportunity to make a joke about a pain in his right shoulder that reminds him of having a certain age: “This morning (Saturday, ed.) I woke up with a nagging pain in his right shoulder, ‘ailment which said it had joked on the phone with a friend and contemporary Fedele Confalonieri. ”

Entrepreneurs as candidates

this is why the former prime minister did not appear in person at a meeting of the Senior FI Union of Commerce of Milan, which was also attended by Stefano Parisi. During his speech he explained that he was “already being there, but I was stopped because I was told (the organizers), the metropolitan did not work.” The phone is still intervened in the electoral debate for the Municipal: “To back together Milan, Rome and other cities we decided not to choose among politicians our candidates, we tried not champions” blablabla “and saying but doing. In Naples there is a good entrepreneur Gianni Lettieri, a specialist emergency in Rome as Guido Bertolaso ​​and in Milan Stefano Parisi, whom I met 10 years ago and I enjoyed. Parisi served as general director of Confindustria, is now the successful entrepreneur, has been hard to convince him. I told him that this was the best legacy we could leave to his grandchildren, who might say, “My grandfather was the mayor of Milan,” so he agreed. ” “We must engage in this great challenge with an extensive contact with people that everyone knows and that are part of the category of resigned – Berlusconi goes on – we have to do it for Milan, and knowing that the Milan result can help to change the history of Italian politics” .

“Pisapia did nothing”

“If we want to take Milan by fear and return to normal life, we have to bring to vote people disillusioned by politics , “continued Berlusconi. It argued that in the next five years bisognare “transform the city as we did with the Albertini”, stating that “the government Pisapia and the Democratic Party have not really done anything to Milan.” “The more order, less theft and less degradation,” the leader of FI recipe, which ensured maximum effort for the campaign Parisi. “Stephen, you have to feel supported by all of us – concluded the call by contacting the present mayoral candidate in the room – we are convinced that he will be the best mayor of Milan. I am convinced that he can win. ”

The pensions

Berlusconi commented also Renzi and his idea of ​​pensions: “Now have invented alms election of 80 euro, we do not need. During the election campaign we explain to those of our age that we when we were in government we raised pensions to one million lire. ” Criticized, as well, the measurement of the 80 euro bonus for minimum pensions to the government study. Berlusconi then argued that “today we can not live in dignity with less than one thousand euro” and raised: “We take a commitment in front of everyone, the first thing that we will bring to the table of the Council of Ministers when we come back to the government will lead to a thousand pensions euro. “