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    Berlusconi's improbable return to politics: Why Italy is giving him another look

    Dec 06, 2017 3 minutes

    Just a few years ago, it seemed safe to assume that Silvio Berlusconi's political career was over.

    The billionaire businessman was forced to resign as Italy's prime minister in 2011 over his management of the country's debt crisis and revelations of risqué parties involving actresses and models. Two years after that, he was banned from holding public office as a result of a tax fraud conviction. Meanwhile, Italian politics moved on under a center-left government and a rising, upstart Five Star populist movement.

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    Potential king, or at least kingmaker'He’s not Weinstein'Frustration with politics

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