Belusconi's party remained crucial for the right to win a majority in parliament. He hinted at nominating a successor, but he never could bring himself to consummate the nomination. Italy has failed to grow for so many years because Belusconi was too busy passing laws on his own and his business's interest," says John Defterios.
Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion, and for all his gaffes and scandals he helped to shape the country’s media—and its economic malaise. Unfettered by the abandoned nuclear deal, Iran is now making its bomb programme unassailable. And bringing the 20th-century idea of “Smell-o-vision” into the 21st.
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