Berlusconi

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been declared “stable” on Thursday after spending a night in intensive care.

The 86-year-old media mogul and senator was rushed to the cardiac unit at Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital after he developed respiratory problems.

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According to Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, a member of Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, who spoke to newsmen, Belusconi’s doctor has assured him the ace politician is now stable.

“He told me Silvio Berlusconi had a quiet night, his condition is stable,” he said.

Italy’s best-selling Corriere della Sera daily, the magnate has been diagnosed with leukemia.

Berlusconi was rushed to hospital after complaining of breathing difficulties and had low blood oxygen levels which put his cardiovascular and respiratory systems under stress, Italian media reported.

The billionaire leader of the right-wing Forza Italia party spent four days last month at the same hospital for what Italian news reports called heart issues, before being discharged last Thursday.

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“I have already started working again… ready and determined to commit myself, as I have always done, to the country I love,” he said in a message posted on social networks Friday.

And on Sunday, he posted a photo of himself grinning in front of a vast lawn of tulips in his villa in Arcore, in northern Italy.

Berlusconi entered politics in 1994 and for millions of Italians, he represented a golden age of the Italian economy and the self-made man.

Despite a series of sex scandals and court cases which threatened to tarnish his image, he has held a soft spot in many Italians’ hearts since then.

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