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ITALY - VOTE - ELECTION - POLITICS - FORZA ITALIA
Leader of the Italian right-wing party Forza Italia (Go Italy) Silvio Berlusconi (C), flanked by Forza Italia's Lombardia candidate Attilio Fontana (R), gestures as he delivers a speech on stage during a campaign rally in Milan on February 25, 2018, ahead of the Italian general elections of next week. Silvio Berlusconi, the billionaire media mogul who dominated Italian politics for nearly two decades, has stepped back into the ring at the age of 81, defying those who dared to believe he had thrown in the towel. Despite sex scandals, serial gaffes and legal woes, the flamboyant tycoon has made an astonishing return from political oblivion to head his centre-right Forza Italia (Go Italy) party, which as part of a rightwing coalition is leading the race for the March 4, 2018 vote.
Piero CRUCIATTI / AFP