Silvio Berlusconi, who was Italian prime minister 4 instances, is in intensive care in a cardiac unit at Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital, political sources say.
The 86-year-old billionaire media tycoon, who has suffered repeated bouts of in poor health well being in recent times, had come out of hospital final week.
Mr Berlusconi’s Forza Italia get together is a part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition though he doesn’t have a job in authorities.
Mr Berlusconi, who made his fortune by means of his tv channels earlier than getting into politics, had coronary heart surgical procedure in 2016 and has additionally had prostate most cancers.
He has been repeatedly admitted to hospital previously couple of years after contracting COVID-19 in 2020.
Three sources from Mr Berlusconi’s Forza Italia get together mentioned he was in intensive care, and one in all them confirmed Italian media reviews that he was being handled in a cardiac unit.
One other of the sources mentioned the state of affairs was “below management”.
San Raffaele Hospital didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
Mr Berlusconi, who sits within the Senate (higher home) of the Italian parliament, has stirred controversy in current months along with his criticism of Ukraine’s President Volodymir Zelensky, placing him at odds with Ms Meloni.
An Italian court docket acquitted Mr Berlusconi in February over allegations of paying witnesses to lie in an underage prostitution case that has dogged the previous prime minister for greater than a decade.
Mr Berlusconi was accused of bribing 24 folks, largely younger, feminine friends at his so-called Bunga Bunga events, in a earlier trial the place he was charged with paying for intercourse with a 17-year-old Moroccan nightclub dancer.
