WI: Second Italian Republic without Berlusconi?

Let's do a favour to all Italians and get him away from any political powerful position....

On 11 February 1994, Silvio Berlusconi's brother, Paolo Berlusconi was admitted to corruption crimes and in fact the Mani Pulite prosecutors were investigating corruption allegations and links in Fininvest, Berlusconi's media empire, which are/were probably true since, for starters, Berlusconi was/is friends with the well-known corrupt politician Bettino Craxi.

So let's suppose that for w/e reason Antonio Di Pietro and the other prosecutors of Mani Pulite and the police are able to get Berlusconi before the '94 elections and well, he goes to well.

I assume that the post-communist Partito Democratico della Sinistra and their Alliance of Progressives wins the election, however what happens to the Italian centre-right without the polarizing figure of Berlusconi and his absolute control of most Italian media?

Furthermore, taking into account that on 3 July 1994, Berlusconi passed a law that ensured that most politicians that had been charged and found guilty of corruption (both from the Pentapartito and the Communists) did not go to jail, how could having so large political figures imprisoned (even though, probably for a very short time) affect the general development of Italian economics?

Lastly, since Berlusconi could be, perhaps, be held accountable for the bad evolution of the Italian economy, that basically has been stagnant for 20 years now, if he is not in power, could the economy done better?

I realize that no Berlusconi would not fix the problems of Italy magically, but I am interested in seeing how Italian politics develop without such a populist and polarizing figure.
 
With Berlusconi out the PDL will win the election...just not in the landslide manner they thing, the media empire of Berlusconi was important yes, but has been used as an excuse by the left for years as his control was not so total or even important in the context of Italy politics.
Just as note at the time there were 6 national channels:
- Rai 1...owned by the vatican just on loan on the state, basically the official position whatever is in charge
- Rai 2...happily bought by the best bidder
- Rai 3...home of post-communist and left
- Italia 1 basically a mix of Mtv and E! with foxstyle news
- Rete4 targeting old people and with the italian version of FOx News (only very very few take him seriously...but as comedy are priceless)
- Canale 5 the admiral of Berlusconi company and with news program with enough independece as a too much interference mean too much public problem.
The greatest motivation for Berlusconi first victory was the novelty, the fact that he was an outsider from the politics, a new face against the old corrupted order who the PDL was part even if he tried with any means to distance himself.
Regarding the future of the Center-right, we will have two big party, the Lega Nord more localistic and Alleanza Nazionale lead by Gianfranco Fini and who will probably absorb/coopt more former democristhian like Casini.
Much of the future depends on how much it will need for any coalition to break up due to too much different agenda, really communist, red green and would be labour working together is almost impossible in the long time, in OTL the only things who held them was their hate for Berlusconi, without him their inner conflict will arise much sooner.
 
The problem with the Italian electorate is their utterly irrational fear of the Red Menace, caused by having a theocracy which is becoming ever more obscurantist, corrupt and uncompromising since the assassination (yes, assassination) of John Paul I sitting right into the center of Italian political power. It becomes crystal-clear when, twenty-odd years after the end of the Cold War, a 76-year-old semi-lunatic still manages to rally his electorate behind the idea that everything bad in the country is a direct consequence of the baby-eating Left's mere existence, after the PCI was the one and only bastion of rights and progress for thirty years after the demise of Alcide DeGasperi. But hey... Memory is a luxury the common Italian could never afford!

The sad truth is that after Mani Pulite the Italian people was keen on building a New Republic only in theory, as in practice most electors were so faithful to the preservation of the status quo that they chose to vote for Berlusconi, i.e. Bettino Craxi's best man at the latter's marriage. Not to mention the fact that even a ten-year-old would have smelt that something was wrong with his sudden entry into politics, since the worsening conditions of the FININVEST group were well-known in the economical scene.
 
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