Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi He returned to hospital on Sunday for “routine” tests, a spokesman said, a day after the billionaire dropped out of the race to become Italy’s new president.
His doctor Alberto Zangrillo, from San Raffaele Hospital in Milan (north), confirmed that the 85-year-old politician was admitted on Sunday to undergo long-planned “periodic clinical examinations”.
One of the political allies of BerlusconiMatteo Salvini, of the far-right La Liga party, said he had a long telephone conversation with the former prime minister and that he was “calm and fine”.
Il Cavaliere, 85, has been campaigning for weeks to replace outgoing President Sergio Mattarella, though few analysts have believed he has enough support to win.
But on Saturday he announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy from “national responsibility” and because Italy “needed unity” in its fight against Covid-19.
However, Italian media say his family is worried about his health.
Berlusconi, who was prime minister three times between 1994 and 2011 (with the center-right Forza Italia party), underwent open heart surgery in 2016 and has been in hospital several times in recent months.
In September 2020, after being hospitalized for 11 days due to pneumonia due to Covid-19, he said he narrowly escaped death.
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx