You can’t keep Silvio Berlusconi down. A lesser man might be chastened by being turfed out of the Prime Minister’s office, an ongoing trial involving a sex scandal, or a conviction for fraud.
Yet Italy’s longest-serving leader since the Second World War confirmed what had been long-rumored on Saturday –he is planning a comeback just a year after an ignoble exit from office.
His People of Liberty party has withdrawn its support from the comparatively reserved technocrat who replaced him, Mario Monti.
After being “besieged” by calls to return to the front line of Italian politics (according to a statement from him), Berlusconi declared at the weekend: “The situation today is much worse than it was a year ago when I left the government out of a sense of responsibility and a love for my country.”
CONTINUED at CNBC.
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