Berlusconi orders La Russa, the new president of the Italian Senate, to be taken for c***

It had been nine years since the former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, had not occupied one of the seats in the Palazzo Madame, seat of the Senate. In 2013 he was disbarred for a tax fraud conviction. This Thursday, however, The Cavaliere86, has regained his place to attend the first session of the new legislature in which the Italian chambers have been formed after the last elections gave victory to the right-wing coalition led by Giorgia Meloni.

Far from going unnoticed, the leader of the conservative Forza Italia party has shown his discomfort at how the negotiations with his right-wing partners to form a government are going. And it seems that Meloni, who presides over the Brothers of Italy, plans to leave the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies to Matteo Salvini’s League -which achieved 8.9% of the votes- and not to Berlusconi’s formation, which obtained 8.6%.

This has infuriated the tycoon, who has forced members of his party to refrain in the vote to choose the candidate and co-founder of the Brothers of Italy, Ignazio La Russa, as president of the Senate. A position that shows the discomfort that exists among the allies of the coalition, but that has not prevented La Russa from reaching 116 of the 104 votes he needed.

Berlusconi was also seen talking to La Russa during the session. And, after a few minutes, the former president seems to have concluded the conversation with a “vaffanculo” (“to take for c***”).

After the vote, Berlusconi has written a message on his Twitter account in which he says he is “pleased” for the election of Ignazio La Russa as president of the Senate of the Republic. “Not only have I never had any confrontation with him, but we are collaborating loyally and in total agreement to give our country a stable institutional framework and a strong and cohesive government “, he continued.

[Meloni no dará Interior al “prorruso” Salvini, que amenaza: “El ministerio o solo daré apoyo externo”]

However, tensions remain latent in the new coalition government, since Berlusconi, who has several pending court cases, has asked his party for the portfolio of Justice and the ministry that manages telecommunications. Some requests that do not seem to convince the rest of the partners.