BBC: Daughter wades in on Berlusconi

[Heidi]

In general, I don't much care what politicians do in their private lives, but this is a guy who waves the banner for "freedom, the individual, family, enterprise, Italian tradition, Christian tradition and love for weaker people." :eyes:
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The daughter of scandal-tainted Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says politicians should have moral values, in an apparent dig at her father.

Barbara Berlusconi told Vanity Fair magazine that public officials should "safeguard" the values they promoted.

She also said that she was amazed at the attention her father had lavished on an 18-year-old aspiring model.

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"Political representatives who are called to govern well, make society prosper, are also held to safeguard the values they express, possibly raise them," his daughter - the eldest of three children by his estranged wife, Veronica - told the magazine.

"So I don't believe a politician can allow a distinction between his public and private life."

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[Vidar]

1. Good for his daughter.