Alessandro Sallusti closes the summer blow in the bud: Pier Silvio Berlusconi will not take the field. There is no politics in the near future of Silvio Berlusconi’s second child. “Suggesting hypothesis”, writes the director of Liebro in a long article in the edition of Sunday, August 13, so much so that “every word, every blink of an eye of the most prominent heir together with his sister Marina is played first on the moviola and then under the microscope of newspapers and insiders in a suspiciously growing morbidity: “Did you see? Pier Silvio already speaks like a leader”, concludes the analysis some of these attentive observers making a misleading first mistake”. In other words, they forget that Pier Silvio has been a leader for 23 years, at Mediaset and later in the various business and financial activities of the group.
The director lists some facts of the last few months. After his father’s state funeral, Pier Silvio, in a speech to Mediaset employees, said: “He will always remain in our hearts, but starting tomorrow we will return to work as usual”, “making it clear – recalls Sallusti – that the helm of company was well controlled and the navigation right”. A month after the announcement of timetables with the already known surprises: stops at Barbara D’Urso, at Bianca Berlinguer and Myrta Merlino due to a new line without garbage.
Then, on August 8, “Pier Silvio is on the move again. At the end of the first Silvio Berlusconi Trophy -(…) the heir leaves the stands, microphone in hand, arrives at the center of the field accompanied by his younger brother Luigi, from Marta Fascina, by her uncle Paolo and speaks to the sixteen thousand in the stands. A short speech focused on the “sense of respect dear to my father” delivered amid applause with the firm and confident voice of a leader”. Here, too, everyone shouts the “descent into the countryside” of politics. But it is only a suggestion, concludes Sallusti: the fact is that Pier Silvio was ready for a watershed, the death of his father, crucial for every man, and “we can say with certainty that there is no improvisation on the horizon that concerns his descent into politics neither in the short nor in the medium term”, and this “with “that sense of respect” that is in the family’s DNA” writes the director who puts an end to the catchphrase of mid-August.
Source: IL Tempo
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