Former Italian PM to undergo surgery on Tuesday

Dimeji Akinloye 22:25 - 11 June 2016

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The media mogul said in a message on Facebook on Friday his Forza Italia party was perfectly able to function despite his absence.

A spokeswoman for Milan's San Raffaele hospital, where the 79-year-old centre-right leader will have a defective aortic valve replaced, confirmed the comment made to reporters by Berlusconi's personal doctor Alberto Zangrillo.

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The media mogul said in a message on Facebook on Friday his Forza Italia party was perfectly able to function despite his absence, ahead of a run-off vote in municipal elections on June 19.