“The clinical picture of President Silvio Berlusconi is visible to improve slowly but progressively. Treatments and monitoring of organ functions are continuing,” the San Raffaele hospital in Milan said in a statement on Friday.

Berlusconi is being treated at the San Raffaele hospital in, but no longer in, the intensive care unit where he had been since April 5 after contracting pneumonia, a complication resulting from the weakening of his body due to chronic leukemia. “He really wants to come back,” said Berlusconi’s party official Antonio Tajani. The deputy prime minister and foreign minister hopes the ‘cavalier’ will be able to speak at the big rally of his Forza Italia party in Milan on May 5 and 6.” But, he added, “it’s good to take care of yourself to fully recovered”.

From the hospital ward where he is, Berlusconi is informed about the steps of the party and its government partners.

In the last few hours he had phone calls with Tajani and Salvini. “I was about to enter the Vatican for a jubilee meeting and I received the phone call. I heard him in a loud voice,” Tajani commented again. And Salvini speaks of a wonderful surprise: “How nice to hear you” were the words of the leader of the League and minister of the interior. A phone call of a few minutes, which ended with a joke about the next round of Berlusconi’s Milan team in the Champions League.

And today, Friday, the hospital was visited by the president of the Mediaset group, Fedele Confalonieri, who regularly visits Berlusconi. Like Paolo Berlusconi, his “cavalier” brother.