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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.
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