MILAN (AP) — Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has been present process a sequence of medical examinations in a Milan hospital, a spokesman confirmed Sunday, the day after the center-right political chief and media tycoon took his identify out of competition to be Italy’s subsequent president.
Italian media reported that Berlusconi had been hospitalized at San Raffaele hospital, the place his doctor works, however the spokesman mentioned he has been out and in of the hospital over latest days for a sequence of exams and a checkup.
Berlusconi, 85, recovered from COVID-19 in 2020 and was out and in of the hospital final spring for therapy of problems associated to the virus.
Berlusconi spent 10 days being handled at San Raffaele Hospital for COVID-19 in September of 2020. He advised reporters after being discharged that illness had been “insidious” and was probably the most harmful problem he had ever confronted.
Apart from being in a susceptible age group, Berlusconi has a coronary heart situation that prompted him to get a pacemaker a number of years in the past.
Berlusconi on Saturday reluctantly withdrew his candidacy to succeed Sergio Mattarella as Italy’s head of state, a largely ceremonial put up that additionally requires political acumen and constitutional information to steer Italy via its not rare political crises.
Lawmakers and regional representatives start voting on Monday, with political maneuvering over candidates nonetheless in full-swing.