Berlusconi is the target of a lobby plot, according to his daughter Barbara

Saturday, 7 September 2013. Barbara Berlusconi, in an interview with Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, says that a lobby is trying do to her father in.

Barbara Berlusconi with her father Silvio

Barbara Berlusconi was at the business workshop in Cernobbio's beautiful Villa d'Este, when she was reached by a quite unusual interviewer, the (former?) confidante of her mother Veronica Lario (the interview was published by Rome's newspaper Il Messaggero), asking Barbara to comment the Silvio Berlusconi's legal woes and take a stance in the entangled situation of Italian politics.

«The story of my father and of my family is not that of a handful of tax evaders. [...] The story of Silvio Berlusconi can not end in shame» she said, referring to the recent conviction of the media tycoon for tax fraud, «There are those who want to hunt my father from politics for their own interests.
The goal is to eliminate the leader of a coalition. And it's this lobby, not my father, to block Italy up».

Barbara Berlusconi with her sister Eleonora:
is the Berlusconi family pulling together?

Conversely the judges think that the goal is to punish a former prime minister who had sex with an under-age girl and gave her money in exchange (the fact that Silvio Berlusconi gave Karima “Ruby the Heartstealer” El Mahroug a lot of cash, that she visited his villa when she was 16 are undisputed, but in court they both denied having had sex, though previously the young belly dancer apparently told every Tom, Dick, and Harry about the relationship). 

Anyhow, Silvio Berlusconi's daughter – who is also involved in his father's businesses as a member of the board directors of AC Milan football team – said also that Italy «worked hard to get rid of a dictatorship» to end up in a situation not much different from that...

In the past the 29-year-old Barbara Berlusconi has been labelled as “rebel”, since she sometimes kept her distance from her father – specially when his separation from her mother got nasty, and both Barbara and her mother accused Silvio Berlusconi of being an addicted womanizer  – and she declared to like the Italian Democratic Party's (Partito Democratico, PD) Florence's mayor and rising star Matteo Renzi, who is likely to become the head of the PD pretty soon.

Now those times seem to be over and the Berlusconi family seems to be pulling together and heading to the matrasses (metaphorically speaking).