PM Browne sends condolences to Italy Re: the death of former Prime Minister Berlusconi

Prime Minister Gaston Browne has dispatched a letter of condolences to the
government and people of Italy over the death of former Prime Minister, Silvio
Berlusconi.
The Italian government on Monday announced his passing at the age of 86 years
old.
Allies and critics have paid tribute to the former Italian prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi, the country’s longest-serving postwar leader and one of its most
divisive.
The billionaire media tycoon and former AC Milan owner who entered politics at
the head of his own Forza Italia in the 1990s, as the traditional parties of the right
collapsed, led three governments between 1994 and 2011 and succeeded in making
a comeback in 2017, despite a career tainted by sex scandals, allegations of
corruption and a tax fraud conviction.
He died at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, where he had spent six weeks this
spring undergoing treatment for a lung infection.
Following is the letter dispatched to the Italian government by PM Browne.