Legendary for a spectrum of reasons across Italian politics, Silvio Berlusconi has announced his candidacy for the European Parliamentary Elections on 26 May. On a national tour ahead of administrative elections taking place in Italy next month, he told the people of Quartu in Sardinia that he intends to stand. During his address, the former Italian prime minister said that "his knowledge, experiences, and ability to convince" would allow him to play an important role and "make European citizens understand that we risk moving away from Western values."
The tweet reads: "Live from Sardinia, I announce that I decided to run for the #Europeans to bring my voice to a Europe that has to be changed. A united #centerright can win: with its values and its ideas, it's the future of Italy, of Europe, of the world."
The former Italian prime minister will be standing for the centre-right European People's Party (EPP), which Forza Italia (Berlusconi's party) is a member of.
Antonio Tajani, also an Italian politician who's serving as the President of the European Parliament, is also a member of the EPP. He congratulated Berlusconi in a tweet.
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