Berlusconi has led the country as prime minister three times, most recently in 2011.
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Italian former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been hospitalized in Milan with heart problems.
The condition is not life threatening but the Forza Italia leader will spend several days at the city’s San Raffaele hospital, the reports said.
The AGI news agency reported: “His hospitalisation was scheduled, his doctors wanted to perform a series of tests after the slight discomfort he experienced Sunday night, which was neither serious nor worrying”.
San Raffaele hospital said in a statement the 79-year-old he was suffering from a “cardiac deficiency”.
Berlusconi, who had a pacemaker implanted 9 years ago, is undergoing tests to decide the proper course of therapy.
Initial reports suggested the situation could have been caused by Berlusconi suddenly feeling unwell, which caused some worry as the President had already suffered health problems in the past. The candidate he backed for Rome mayor, property tycoon Alfio Marchini, was excluded in the first round of voting on Sunday after a poor showing.
Silvio Berlusconi: Admission necessary because of “cardiac deficiency”.
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Last year, a court in southern Italy found him guilty of bribing a senator to switch factions in a move which helped topple a center-left government in 2008. The court banned Berlusconi from holding any public office for five years. He is reportedly trying to sell his majority stake in the club to a Chinese consortium.
