Ex-Minister Silvio announced stable in intensive care

According to a minister from his party, former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, known as “the immortal” for his long career in politics, was “stable” on Thursday after spending the previous night in an intensive care unit.

The 86-year-old media magnate and senator, who has recently been admitted and discharged from hospitals, was on Wednesday reportedly brought to Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital’s cardiac unit due to breathing issues.

Forza Italian party member and foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Rai Uno radio that he had spoken to the magnate’s physician.

“He told me Silvio Berlusconi had a quiet night, his condition is stable,” he said.

Berlusconi was in critical care, according to Tajani, “because to a problem involving an unsolved infection.”

The magnate has leukemia, according toItalian bestselling newspaper Corriere della Sera.

According to Italian media, Berlusconi complained of breathing problems and was sent to the hospital because of low blood oxygen levels, which stressed his cardiovascular and pulmonary systems.

The billionaire head of the right-wing Forza Italia party was admitted to the same hospital last month for four days for what Italian media outlets described as heart problems. He was later released on Thursday.

“I’ve already resumed working… He stated in a message shared on social media platforms on Friday that he was “ready and determined to give myself, as I have always done, to the country I love.”

Then on Sunday, he shared a picture of himself beaming in front of a sizable tulip lawn at his property in the northern Italian town of Arcore.

The “Cavaliere,” as he is popularly known in Italy, has dominated Italian politics for decades, but on the rare occasions he is visible in public, he now appears physically weakened.

He has always maintained that his famed “bunga bunga” parties with young starlets, which he has always claimed were nothing more than beautiful meals, are long gone.

Despite receiving only about 10% of the vote, Forza Italia is a component of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing coalition administration.

Meloni tweeted her “sincere and affectionate wish for a speedy recovery” Wednesday, while Matteo Salvini, whose League party is also a coalition member, tweeted “Forza Silvio, Italy is waiting for you!”

When Berlusconi entered politics in 1994, he stood for the self-made man and a booming Italian economy to millions of Italians.

Since then, he has retained a soft spot in the hearts of many Italians despite a slew of sex scandals and legal disputes that threatened to ruin his reputation.