Blandine Hugonnet, edited by Gauthier Delomez with AFP 12:22, September 08, 2021

Hospitalized again at the end of August, Silvio Berlusconi worries the Italian media about his state of health.

Officially, the former head of government is recovering from a long Covid, but the press emphasizes that he is having all his audiences sacked in the Rubygate scandal.

Is Silvio Berlusconi pretending to be sick to avoid justice?

The 84-year-old former head of the Italian government prosecuted for witness tampering in the Rubygate scandal has had all his hearings postponed since the start of the year.

The media mogul is increasing hospital stays and was released from a new hospitalization in Milan on Friday August 27.

But the Italian press wonders if this is not a way for him to avoid condemnation.

A long Covid at the origin of his hospitalizations

This brief hospitalization during the month of August "is not a surprise", estimates

Corriere

, which recalls the prosecutions of which the former head of the Italian government is the object.

According to the

Messagero

, the billionaire with a sulphurous past even has a medical bed installed at his home.

"What's wrong with him?" Asks the Roman newspaper.

Officially, Silvio Berlusconi is receiving treatment for a long Covid that he caught last summer, responds

Tempo

. 

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The seat of President of the Republic in the sights

"In any case, the fragile health of the boss of the right is not reassuring for his party, or for his political future", summarizes the

Fatto Quotidiano

.

Still MEP, the Cavaliere however seems not to have lost his political combativeness and has launched a series of proposals, the creation of a single right-wing party with the League of Matteo Salvini and Fratelli of Italy of Giorgia Meloni (extreme right) by 2023, the theoretical date of the next legislative elections, to lower taxes.

And according to the

Post Internazionale

, which seems to accuse him of playing the imaginary patient, Berlusconi could well see himself recovering the seat of President of the Italian Republic in 2022.