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Ansa: Billionaire Berlusconi's candidacy for president has been suspended, and he has served as Italy's prime minister for several terms

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Vittorio Sgarbi, a lawmaker for Italy's Extreme Racing (FI) party, said on Tuesday that art critic and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was "very sad yesterday" because his efforts to become Italy's next president had "stopped."

Ansa: Billionaire Berlusconi's candidacy for president has been suspended, and he has served as Italy's prime minister for several terms

Berlusconi served as Prime Minister of Italy for several terms

While FI's center-right ally Matteo Salvini's coalition and Giorgia Meloni's Italian Brothers (FdI) party have said they support the media billionaire in replacing President Sergio Mattarella, whose seven-year term is coming to an end, the center-left Democratic Party (PD) and the Five Star Movement (M5S), the media billionaire reported. The new head of State must be a more impartial figure.

So when members of both houses of parliament and regional representatives begin voting for a new president next week, there are big questions about whether Berlusconi will have the necessary support.

"I think there must be psychological uneasiness," Scaraby told RAI Radio. "He stayed in Milan (yesterday)." "I think this termination has to do with him wondering if there's a glorious way out, he likes a (new president's) name, maybe (re-elected) Is Mattarella."

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