A year ago Silvio Berlusconi left. Meloni: “He left an indelible mark”
His children dedicate sweet words to him: "Your love will live forever within us"
by Giusy Mercadante and Vittorio Mambro Rossetti
ROME – On June 12, 2023, Silvio Berlusconi passed away. The Knight passed away l last year at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan at the age of 86. Berlusconi had returned to the hospital from where he had been discharged after a hospital stay of 45 days. He was suffering from chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, the pathology responsible for the lung infection that forced him to be hospitalized for a long time in intensive care.
“Sweet dad, your love will live forever within us”, write his children Marina, Pier Silvio, Barbara and Luigi on Il Sole 24 ore. A few words and an image of the Knight, smiling as always.
MELONI: “HE LEFT AN INDELIBLE SIGN IN ITALIAN POLITICS”
“On the first anniversary of the death of Silvio Berlusconi – Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote on social media – I would like to remember a man who left an indelible mark on Italian political history. We shared many battles and decisive moments for our nation. Even in his memory, we will continue to give our best to restore vision and greatness to Italy. Hello Silvio”.
TAJANI: “WE MISS YOU, HELLO PRESIDENT”
“We miss you, bye president”, writes the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Antonio Tajani on X.
“That night – says Tajani on ‘Mattino cinque news’ on Canale 5 – I was in Washington and I received a message from which he wrote: ‘he flew to heaven’. It was a moment dramatic because I lost a friend from whom I learned a lot and with whom there was an extraordinary relationship of respect and friendship And I thought what happens now with Forza Italia? None of us thought at that moment that we could make it, < /strong>no one believed that Forza Italia would survive. He was not the Sun King of the 2000s: after me, nothing.”
And in fact, he continues, “at the moment of his death everyone rolled up their sleeves, came to our offices and said let’s move on. His most beautiful creature cannot disappear. And ours extraordinary result of 3 days ago, becoming the third force in the country, is the best gift that Forza Italia could give him.”
SALVINI: “SILVIO BERLUSCONI GREAT ITALIAN. WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU “
Salvini also chooses social media to greet Berlusconi. “A year ago – he writes – a brilliant entrepreneur left us, a revolutionary innovator in multiple fields, a statesman capable of defining an era, in love with Italy and Freedom. I have I dedicated my book because over the years, beyond our political alliance, he honored me with his friendship, and for me he truly became a Friend, with a capital ‘A’, to whom I was bound by a very tender affection. “.
And he adds: “I remember our last meeting and our last phone calls, I remember the energy and the gaze always turned to the future, to his children and grandchildren, to young people, even to new instruments of artificial intelligence, by which he was amazed and fascinated and of which, always a lucid precursor, he already understood the disruptive impact”.
Salvini then concludes: “In your memory, Silvio, I am still moved and rest assured: we will always love you and we will never forget you. ‘In life, even if maybe someone will smile about it , always set yourself ambitious and high goals. Whoever believes in it fights, whoever believes in it overcomes all obstacles, whoever believes in it wins!’
BERNINI: “I DON’T NEED TO REMEMBER. YOU YOU ARE ALWAYS THERE”
University Minister Anna Maria Bernini writes: “I like to think of you like this. With one of your most iconic phrases: the secret is knowing how to listen. You have taught us a lot. You have given us a lot. Your friendship, your respect, your affection. Listening to people’s needsbecause, you told us, there is already a solution in their story given projects to implement and ideas to think about. They are the same ones that guide us today and that inspire our action in the Government, in Parliament, in the country. I like knowing that you are at our side at all times won and in those that we are ready to face. I don’t need to remind you
THE PRESIDENT OF THE REGION OF LOMBARDY ATTILIO FONTANA: “A GREAT LOMBARD”
“One year ago Silvio Berlusconi, a great Lombard, left us!”, writes the president of the Lombardy region Attilio Fontana on Facebook. “A visionary and innovative entrepreneur – he adds – a man of institutions and a far-sighted politician, a protagonist in sport”, as we defined him by naming the Belvedere on the 39th floor of Palazzo Lombardia after him”.
GALLIANI: “IN 1979 I IMMEDIATELY FELL IN LOVE WITH HIM AND REMAINED LOVE FOR 45 YEARS”
“I met Silvio Berlusconi for the first time on November 1, 1979, I was a small industrialist from Brianza, I had a company, Industrial Electronics, which would later build the transmission networks of Canale 5, Italia 1 and Rete4; in the evening herself without doing due diligence, she told me I would like to buy 50 percent of her company, she will continue to manage it, I said yes because I fell in love with him immediately, and I remained in love with Silvio Berlusconi for 45 years“. Thus Adriano Galliani, former sports manager, senator, and historical friend of the Cavaliere, in an exclusive interview with Rainews 24, in the special ‘Remembering Silvio’ one year after the death of the founder of Fininvest.
“Berlusconi’s relationship with women? Silvio Berlusconi was a generous, extraordinary man: certainly attracted to the female sex, which I absolutely do not consider a fault, but always behaving well with each of them “, he adds.
GALLIANI: “HE HAD 4 LIVES”
In the interview, then, Galliani continues: “I say that he has had 4 lives: as a builder, while builders build many condominiums scattered around the city, he builds a city within the city, Milan2 ; then TV, among many local television stations, he understands that to compete with Rai you need the same size; makes it the most successful club in the world. Something similar with Monza, from C to A, and the fourth life, the political one, in ’94 says: I will win the elections and win them, and that party survives Silvio Berlusconi because Tajani knows how to carry forward his example and ideas”.
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And he concludes: “The will? No problem for not being mentioned in the will, my relationship with Berlusconi was wonderful, it was a relationship of feelings, the thing that moves me most is that a few days before he died, his last goodbye, at a dinner with my partner Helga, he shook her hand saying: thank you for what you do for my friend Adriano was Silvio Berlusconi”.