Judge rehabilitates Berlusconi for return to politics

Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may, according to the Italian media, hope for an early return to politics.

In 2013, the Senate deprived Berlusconi of the right to act as a member of parliament after a conviction for tax fraud. Because that prohibition was not to end until 2019, Berlusconi could not take part in the parliamentary elections as a figurehead of his Forza Italia party in March.

'Finally justice, after a five-year ordeal', Mariastella Gelmini, Forza's party chairman in the House of Representatives, responded to the judge's decision.