The daughter Marina, the closest person to Silvio Berlusconi

For some it will be Navyeldest daughter of Silvio Berlusconito take up the paternal legacy in politics, for other observers, however, Forza Italia could disappear with its founder, who died on June 12 at 86 years old. What is certain is that the daughter that the former Premier had from first wife Carla Elvira Lucia Dall’Oglio, from his father he inherited the entrepreneurial vocation, except that of being on stage.

Extremely reserved, discreet, calm, Marina Berlusconi has found working behind the scenes more and more congenial, but when it came to pulling her claws out she never backed down. You vice president of Fininvest at the age of 30, you had to demonstrate that you deserved that position. Hence, a constant climb, from the leadership of Mondadori to that of the same family holding, starting in 2005.

Marina Berlusconi has always said “no” to politics, aware that in certain fields leadership does not come either “by investiture” or “by dynastic succession”; a choice always respected by her father, with whom i relationships have always been privileged. It was she, for example, in October 2022 who convinced the former Knight to mend relations with Giorgia Meloni after the leader of the Brothers of Italy refused some central Ministries to the ally, and it has always been her, in recent months, who has updated on her father’s health conditions. Perhaps her favourite, precisely because she is discreet and at the same time firm, invisible but tenacious, characteristics that Berlusconi has always appreciated, seems to have reminded him a lot of the character of her mother, Rosa Bossi. Marina was the first to arrive at the San Raffaele in Milan when her father’s condition worsened, always by her side, until her death.