Four-times Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with leukaemia, a source close to the matter said on Thursday, a day after he was admitted to intensive care with breathing problems.
in a cardiac unit of Milan's San Raffaele hospital.
"I spoke this morning with Professor Zangrillo and he told me that Berlusconi spent a quiet night, his condition is stable," Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Antonio Tajani told RAI state television. The party subsequently released a statement saying Berlusconi had spoken in the morning to senior Forza Italia allies and urged "maximum commitment" in parliament. "The country needs us," he was quoted as saying.Berlusconi, who made his fortune from commercial television, has suffered repeated bouts of ill-health in recent years and came out of the same hospital just last week after being treated for a few days.
But he returned to the Italian Senate after a national election last September and there is no obvious successor as leader of his party.
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