"I will not run for prime minister again: I stepped aside, even in my party”. So the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in an interview - the first ever given after his resignation - to the Financial Times, which the English newspaper anticipated in the online edition.
Berlusconi also reiterated the maximum support to the current government of Mario Monti: "The hope is that this government, supported for the first time by the entire Parliament, will have the opportunity to propose major structural reforms, starting with the institutional architecture of the state, without which we cannot think of having a modern and really free and democratic”.
Also inevitable process question, to which the former prime minister replied by reiterating that he was "absolutely serene" both on the Mills front and on the Ruby case.
Finally, Berlusconi, in confirming his exit from the scene, also officially invested the current PDL secretary Angelino Alfano as "his heir", specifying however that the party “will hold primaries to choose its candidate for prime minister”.
