FILE PHOTO - Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi speaks following a talk with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale palace in Rome, Italy, April 12, 2018. REUTERS/Max Rossi
ROME (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday he will run in May's European parliamentary election, standing as a candidate for public office for the first time since being found guilty of tax fraud in 2013.
Berlusconi, 82, a flamboyant media mogul and scandal-prone centre-right politician, was expelled from the upper house Senate and barred from office after his graft conviction.
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