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9 Berlusconi as head of government

Newell, James L.. "9 Berlusconi as head of government". Silvio Berlusconi: A study in failure, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019, pp. 163-180. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526133946.00020

Newell, J. (2019). 9 Berlusconi as head of government. In Silvio Berlusconi: A study in failure (pp. 163-180). Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526133946.00020

Newell, J. 2019. 9 Berlusconi as head of government. Silvio Berlusconi: A study in failure. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 163-180. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526133946.00020

Newell, James L.. "9 Berlusconi as head of government" In Silvio Berlusconi: A study in failure, 163-180. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526133946.00020

Newell J. 9 Berlusconi as head of government. In: Silvio Berlusconi: A study in failure. Manchester: Manchester University Press; 2019. p.163-180. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526133946.00020

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Silvio Berlusconi

Berlusconi in 2010

Prime Minister of Italy
In office
8 May 2008 – 16 November 2011
PresidentGiorgio Napolitano
Preceded byRomano Prodi
Succeeded byMario Monti
In office
11 June 2001 – 17 May 2006
PresidentCarlo Azeglio Ciampi
Deputy
Preceded byGiuliano Amato
Succeeded byRomano Prodi
In office
11 May 1994 – 17 January 1995
PresidentOscar Luigi Scalfaro
Deputy
  • Roberto Maroni
  • Giuseppe Tatarella
Preceded byCarlo Azeglio Ciampi
Succeeded byLamberto Dini
President of Forza Italia
In office
18 January 1994 – 12 June 2023
President of The People of Freedom
In office
29 March 2009 – 16 November 2013
Member of the European Parliament
In office
2 July 2019 – 12 October 2022
ConstituencyNorth-West Italy
In office
20 July 1999 – 10 June 2001
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
13 October 2022 – 12

Political career of Silvio Berlusconi

The political career of Silvio Berlusconi (1994–2011) began in 1994, when Berlusconi entered politics for the first time serving intermittent terms as Prime Minister of Italy from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011, his career was racked with controversies and trials; amongst these was his failure to honour his promise to sell his personal assets in Mediaset, the largest television broadcaster network in Italy, in order to dispel any perceived conflicts of interest.

Political career

In the early 1990s, the five pro-Western governing parties, Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana), the Italian Socialist Party, the Italian Social-Democratic Party, the Italian Republican Party and the Italian Liberal Party, lost much of their electoral strength almost overnight due to a large number of judicial investigations concerning the financial corruption of many of their foremost members (see the Mani Pulite affair). This led to a general expectation that upcoming elections would be won by the Democratic Party of the Left,

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