Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who announced this week he wouldn’t run in spring elections, pulled an about-face Saturday and said he felt compelled to stay in politics to reform Italy’s justice system after being convicted of tax fraud, Fox News reported.
His comments came hours after a Milan court sentenced him to four years in prison and barred him from public office for five years after convicting him in a decade-old case involving the purchase of TV rights of U.S. films for his media empire.
Berlusconi has denounced the judges as politicized, as he has done in his many legal wranglings with Italian magistrates ever since he entered politics in 1994.
He told his private Mediaset television Saturday that the verdict would have consequences.
“I feel obliged to stay in the game to reform the justice system so that what happened to me doesn’t happen to others,” he told TG5. He didn’t elaborate or say in what capacity he would work, but he planned to speak publicly later Saturday.
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Berlusconi to stay in politics
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