Villa San Martino, the Arcore residence of Silvio Berlusconi, for the second day the destination of a pilgrimage by all those who want to pay homage to the Forza Italia leader who died yesterday at the age of 86 at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan.

The former premier's coffin was taken to his residence yesterday, awaiting the state funeral scheduled for tomorrow at 3 pm in the Milan Cathedral. No funeral home, only family and close friends can pay homage to the Cav.

Antonio Tajani arrived in Arcore in the afternoon, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also arrived in the evening, welcomed at the gate of Villa San Martino by Pier Silvio, CEO of Mediaset and son of Cav. The Prime Minister stayed for about an hour and left Berlusconi's historic residence together with the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini.

Dozens of tributes and souvenirs in front of Berlusconi's historic residence: flowers, billboards, Forza Italia flags, Milan and Monza scarves .

Commemorations are also planned in the halls of the Chamber and the Senate: a date has not yet been decided in Montecitorio, at Palazzo Madama the commemoration will be held on Tuesday 20 June at 3 pm.

Tomorrow the three seats of the European Parliament (in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg) will also have the EU and Italian flags at half-mast during the funeral from 8 to 20. This was decided by the presidency of the Eurochamber: «Berlusconi was a fighter – said the president of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola – who founded and led the center-right in Italy, a protagonist in politics for generations, contributed to crucial passages in European history and Italian. History will debate his impact, but the man left his mark .'

Controversy over the national mourning decreed for tomorrow is the first time for a former prime minister. Rosy Bindi raised it in an interview on RaiRadio1 in "Un giorno da sheep": «State funerals are planned and it is right that there are, but national mourning for a divisive person like Berlusconi was in my opinion not an appropriate choice ", he said.

Even the M5s deputy Riccardo Ricciardi , speaking of national mourning, defines it as a "political choice". National mourning, he says, "is proclaimed to pay homage to figures who have united the country, people whose contribution to the national community is universally recognized as an added value for the entire nation. Silvio Berlusconi, as a private citizen and also as Prime Minister, has not embodied any of this. Indeed, it certainly has a certain effect to see a Gdf barracks with the flag at half-mast to honor the memory of a man who was convicted of tax fraud . In short, it is a profoundly out of place choice ».

(Unioneonline/L)


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