What for a Surprise: Marina, Daughter of Silvio Berlusconi and Actual Director of his Book Imperium of Mondadori and Einaudi, Declared : „I Feel Closer to the Left"

We read in the Italian press of yesterday: „This government has always respected the rules of democracy, then there are also issues on which one can agree more or less. For example, civil rights: If we talk about abortion, end of life or Lgtbq rights, I feel more in tune with the common-sense left. Everyone must be free to choose.“

These are – a bit surprisingly – the actual words of Marina Berlusconi, first daughter of Berlusconi and interviewed by the Italian newspaper „Corriere della Sera“, on the occasion of the presentation of a new publishing house that will be called „Silvio Berlusconi Editore“.

A tribute to her father and which will have at its centre, she says, the word „freedom“. „The term has become terribly topical again“, the Mondadori chairman continues, commenting on the latest European elections. „The success of movements with anti-democratic ideas cannot fail to alarm. Concerns about the consequences of the forthcoming vote in the United States are growing“, the daughter of Berlusconi declares.

And she continues: „I think there is a need for very deep reflection in Brussels. Behind the spread of certain anti-democratic sympathies there is also a growing impatience, almost anger, towards the Europe of too much control, of dirigisme, of bureaucracy. On the contrary, we need a stronger and more cohesive Europe.“

And the Italian right? On a question about the neo-fascist right she answers: „Are there those who cry democratic emergency? I just don't see it. This government has always fully respected the rules of democracy and in foreign policy has kept the bar straight on pro-European and pro-Atlantic positions. Then, for goodness sake, there are also issues on which one can agree more or less....“

Asked whether he is entering the political arena to follow in his father's footsteps, she replies: „The answer is always the same. No. Absolutely not, neither today nor in the future.“ But returning to „Silvio Berlusconi Editore“, Marina Berlusconi explained to the Italian press that „it will not just be a tribute to my father, but an editorial project that wants to give more strength to liberal and democratic thought, against all forms of totalitarianism, in the name of that freedom that only ends where the freedom of others begins“.