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Silvio Berlusconi, herald of Italy’s far right
Italy’s former prime minister died on June 12. His decades-long career was marked by financial scandals, the platforming of the far-right, and neoliberal anti-worker policies, writes TANUPRIYA SINGH
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SILVIO BERLUSCONI, Italy’s former prime minister and billionaire right-wing politician, died in Milan on June 12, at the age of 86.
In a decades-long career marred by financial and other scandals and prosecutions, the leader of the Forza Italia party would assume the role of prime minister four times between 1994 and his being forced forced to step down in 2011.
Considered to be Italy’s first true populist, his influence in shaping the national discourse extended beyond the time he spent in office, both through the role he had played in the privatisation of television in the 1980s, and subsequently in the mainstreaming of the far-right in the political landscape.
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