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Silvio Berlusconi recorded his connection from his infirmary country pursuing a superior illness
By Kathryn Armstrong
BBC News
Italy's erstwhile premier curate Silvio Berlusconi has told supporters he's acceptable to spell backmost to enactment aft a period successful hospital.
The 86-year-old, who is suffering from leukaemia, was rushed into intensive care with a related lung corruption but his information has since stabilised.
There has been nary connection connected erstwhile helium mightiness permission hospital.
In a video code from his room, Mr Berlusconi thanked his Forza Italia enactment members for their support.
"I ne'er stopped, not adjacent successful the past fewer weeks," helium said successful the pre-recorded message, successful which helium appeared smartly dressed successful a suit.
"I worked connected the party's caller operation and I'm acceptable to instrumentality to enactment with you and combat alongside you our fights for freedom."
Party members clapped enthusiastically astatine the extremity of the code and immoderate could beryllium seen holding backmost tears.
The connection was filmed connected Friday aft relatives and doctors stopped the billionaire media tycoon from being discharged retired of interest helium would effort to be the party's two-day normal successful Milan, according to the Italian paper La Repubblica.
He spent 2 weeks successful intensive attraction earlier being moved to a wide ward successful mid-April.
Forza Italia was founded by Mr Berlusconi and helium remains its person aft serving 4 presumption arsenic president. The enactment is simply a inferior subordinate of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's conjugation authorities but has been successful diminution successful caller years.
Mr Berlusconi's second years successful powerfulness were overshadowed by enactment and corruption scandals and helium remains a divisive fig successful Italian politics.
Earlier this year, helium was finally cleared of bribing young showgirls to lie astir his notoriously raunchy "bunga bunga" parties.
Mr Berlusconi was elected to Italy's precocious house, the Senate, past September but has repeatedly required infirmary attraction and is seldom seen successful public.
His caller instrumentality to infirmary caused interest successful Italy and politicians from crossed the spectrum person wished him well.
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