Silvio Berlusconi is still in hospitalalthough he hopes to overcome the disease. is receiving chemotherapy for the leukemia you have been diagnosed with. At 86 years old, he has been chaining several health problems and also legal cases in a political career that has not left anyone indifferent.

Berlusconi reached the electorate directly through the screen. “He knew that with television, his communication skills, and being the owner of footballassured him some levels of popularity,” says Pablo Martín de Santa Olalla, a professor at the Camilo José Cela University.

Berlusconi entered politics as a owner of three television channels and a team soccer. In this sense, Irati Prat, author of ‘Berlusconi’s Milan’, explains that the politician “had earned a lot of money from telecommunications and wanted to gain a bit of fame from football”.

In this way, he presented himself to the Italians to be prime minister as only alternative to communism. Pablo Martín de Santa Olalla emphasizes in this regard that “his radical anti-communist speech of his was very useful for a long time.”

And he succeeded, leading to the politics that eccentric and populist tone, very current now, which he already applied in business then. “That populism that he transmitted in politics he also tried to transmit in football, and the best example of this are the millionaire signings that he made,” underlines Irati Prat, to which he adds: “What better way to be a populist with your fans than sign the best players in the world to cover up any mistakes that might be made in management”.

His management in politics was also marred by numerous court cases against him. “It is clear that Berlusconi generates a lot of division because of his way of being and his way of acting,” says the professor at the Camilo José Cela University. And it is that in this new stage, already by the hand of Salvini and Meloni, the forces on the right have changed and he has lost power.

“The coalition has been maintained, but the forces have changed because now Meloni is the strongest“, explains Pablo Martín de Santa Olalla, while Irati Prat points out that Berlusconi “in recent years has returned to his past, because he has returned to politics and football.” An attempt, according to experts, to regain power that he had and lost a long time ago.