Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's former prime minister is planning to return to the political scene just before next month's national elections.
He has declared today that he will run for senator as the candidate of the 'Forza Italia' Party, which is in alliance with the far-right 'Brothers of Italy'.
Berlusconi said this, "it would make everyone happy".
The 85-year-old leader of Forza Italia said he would run as a senator in the September 25 elections.
"That way everyone would be happy," he told Radio Rai. "I've been pressured [to do this] by many people, even outside Forza Italia."
Berlusconi, who led the Italian government three times, was expelled from the senate in 2013 and banned from running in general elections for six years after a conviction for tax fraud.
His party is running as part of an alliance led by the Brothers of Italy - a party of neo-fascist origins that includes Matteo Salvini's far-right League.
The coalition is tipped to win the election, possibly paving the way for Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Italy's Brotherhood, whose motto is "God, country and family," to become the country's first female prime minister. country.