la casina rossa

"Italian politics had long been dominated by a revolving-door line-up of gray Christian Democratic leaders who shared power with smaller parties in a establishment of backroom deals and Byzantine rhetoric more likely to confound rather than communicate with real people. But for the past 14 years, the political arena has been dominated by Berlusconi, the neon version of the billionaire in a blue pinstripe suit, making the hard sell in simple, sometimes bawdy language. Some said it was a welcome change from the politics of the past, and he won a short-lived victory in 1994 before his center-right allies turned against him. When he returned for a second term in 2001, and refused to resolve a mammoth conflict of interest linked to his media and financial holdings, alarm bells went off across Europe. Though he used his power to push through laws that favored his business interests, and allowed him to wriggle out of lingering court cases, fears that Italy's basic democratic institutions were at risk turned out to be unfounded. "
TIME

How about a month off taxes?
"He’s told one of the newspapers he owns, Il Giornale, that there’s something very much he wants to do: give Italy a month off taxes.

He says it would be a “month of freedom”, without spelling out whether this is just income tax, or includes all of Italy’s many taxes from corporate tax, sales tax and tax on houses to tax to pay for the health service."
Mark Mardell's Euroblog on BBC