(ANSA) - Milan, November 6 - Three-time premier and
centre-right Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi is
"immortal", Lombardy Governor Roberto Maroni of the rightwing
Northern League (FN) said Monday after the FI-LN's Nello
Musumeci won the elections for Sicilian governor, beating the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) which had been favoured
in the polls.
Maroni added jokingly he hoped Berlusconi would persuade
German Chancellor Angela Merkel to let Milan have the European
Medicines Agency (EMA) when it leaves London, post-Brexit.
Musumeci, also backed by the rightist Brothers of Italy (FdI)
party, has beaten the M5S's Giancarlo Cancelleri by four points
according to the latest projections.
Media magnate Berlusconi, 81, campaigned heavily for Musumeci
in the run-up to Sunday's vote.
photo: L-R, Musumeci, LN leader Matteo salvini, FdI leader
Giorgia Meloni, Berlusconi.
Berlusconi 'immortal' says Maroni (2)
'Hope he'll get Merkel to give us EMA', he jokes