Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media magnate turned trailblazing populist, has died aged 86, marking the end of a controversial career that transformed the country’s politics.
As Italy’s longest-serving postwar prime minister, Berlusconi led the nation in stints totalling almost a decade and marked by criminal investigations into his business affairs and sex scandals.
Even towards the end of his life, he was an active player in Italian politics, playing a key role in the political crisis that brought down former prime minister Mario Draghi’s government last summer, and then joining Giorgia Meloni’s ruling coalition.
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