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Berlusconi in good condition after hospitalisation for heart problem

Published: 08 Jun 2016 - 02:49 pm | Last Updated: 17 Nov 2021 - 08:15 pm
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi leaves the stage flanked by his girlfriend Francesca Pascale at the end of a rally to protest his tax fraud conviction, outside his palace in central Rome, Italy August 4, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File picture

MILAN: Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was in good condition on Wednesday, a day after he was hospitalised for a heart problem, doctors said.

Tests on the four-time prime minister were continuing "positively", Milan's San Raffaele hospital said in a statement without elaborating.

The hospital said on Tuesday that the 79-year-old centre-right politician and media mogul, who was fitted with a pacemaker when he was 70, had suffered a "cardiac deficiency".

Berlusconi's political influence has waned since he left government in 2011.

Reuters