Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi ended a week of upheaval in Italian politics on Saturday when he announced he would return as a leadership candidate at national elections expected in March.
“I am coming back out of a sense of responsibility,” Mr Berlusconi told reporters outside his AC Milan football club. “I am running to win.” But Mr Berlusconi’s first challenge is to convince his own bitterly divided People of Freedom Party (PdL) after he gave reporters a damning appraisal of its leader Angelino Alfano, once considered his protégé, saying he was not ready to lead the party.
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