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| Trump election: Italy's Berlusconi accepts comparisons | Trump election: Italy's Berlusconi accepts comparisons |
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| Disgraced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said comparisons between himself and US President-elect Donald Trump are "obvious". | Disgraced former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said comparisons between himself and US President-elect Donald Trump are "obvious". |
| Berlusconi told an Italian daily that Americans had chosen Mr Trump, "now let him go to work". | Berlusconi told an Italian daily that Americans had chosen Mr Trump, "now let him go to work". |
| Both men both entered politics from the world of business, Berlusconi a media magnate and Mr Trump a property tycoon. | |
| Legal battles have dogged Mr Trump but unlike Berlusconi, he has no criminal convictions. | Legal battles have dogged Mr Trump but unlike Berlusconi, he has no criminal convictions. |
| Aged 70, the man who defeated Hillary Clinton at Tuesday's polls is one of America's most famous and colourful billionaires, with a net worth of $3.7bn (£2.9bn; €3.4bn), according to Forbes business magazine. | Aged 70, the man who defeated Hillary Clinton at Tuesday's polls is one of America's most famous and colourful billionaires, with a net worth of $3.7bn (£2.9bn; €3.4bn), according to Forbes business magazine. |
| Berlusconi, 80, served four terms as prime minister before his criminal convictions in 2013 and 2015. Forbes values him and his family at $5.9bn. | Berlusconi, 80, served four terms as prime minister before his criminal convictions in 2013 and 2015. Forbes values him and his family at $5.9bn. |
| Asked what they had in common, Berlusconi told Italian daily Corriere della Sera (in Italian): "There are some obvious similarities even though my story as an entrepreneur is very different to Trump's, whom I've never met." | Asked what they had in common, Berlusconi told Italian daily Corriere della Sera (in Italian): "There are some obvious similarities even though my story as an entrepreneur is very different to Trump's, whom I've never met." |
| The Italian politician did not go into detail but similarities he may have had in mind include: | The Italian politician did not go into detail but similarities he may have had in mind include: |
| The combover: A hairstyle that refuses to lie down | The combover: A hairstyle that refuses to lie down |
| Berlusconi bandana hides mystery | Berlusconi bandana hides mystery |
| Berlusconi and the bunga bunga | Berlusconi and the bunga bunga |
| What are the allegations against Trump? | What are the allegations against Trump? |
| Trump lewd video on women: Transcript | Trump lewd video on women: Transcript |
| Berlusconi says Obama is 'tanned' | Berlusconi says Obama is 'tanned' |
| Italians have not been slow to pick up on the comparisons between the incoming US president and their former prime minister, fusing the two on social media as "Trumpusconi". | Italians have not been slow to pick up on the comparisons between the incoming US president and their former prime minister, fusing the two on social media as "Trumpusconi". |
| In the interview, Berlusconi stopped short of welcoming Mr Trump's victory but the centre-right politician explained why he thought Mrs Clinton had been defeated. | |
| Mr Trump, he argued, "was elected by all Americans weary of an old political order". | |
| This group had, he suggested, made a "mistake typical of all the left around the world" in "thinking that "'political correctness' was the way to keep close to people's needs". | |
| A constitutional reform referendum due to be held in Italy on 4 December is being seen as a vote of confidence in the country's current Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi. He has threatened to resign if he loses the vote. | |
| Opinion polls suggest he risks a narrow defeat and that would boost Italy's anti-establishment Five Star Movement. | |
| Five Star's founder, ex-comic Beppe Grillo, has described Mr Trump's election victory as "the apocalypse for information, TV, the big newspapers, the intellectuals, the journalists". | |
| Will Trump-style revolt engulf Europe? |