Baku-APA. Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi pledged to relaunch his Forza Italia party this year and force out the centre-left government of Matteo Renzi, according to an interview with daily Il Giornale yesterday,APA reports quoting Reuters.
Berlusconi, 79, has kept a low profile since he was convicted of tax evasion and banned from public office in 2013, but promised to return to the front lines of Italian politics and strengthen his party, which he said was weakened by his absence. This year "will be the year of the battle against the regime of the left which suspended democracy", Berlusconi told the paper, referring to Renzi.