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The ex Italian Prime minister Silvio Berlusconi fainted while holding a speech at a meeting with young followers of the centre-right ideas in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany. Mr Berlusconi fell on the floor with closed eyes. After he was taken out from the room, he felt better and refused to leave with the ambulance but his own car. Later on, the former prime minister went by a helicopter to a hospital in Milan, where examinations were about to be made.

In the room where the meeting was held, Mr Berlusconi complained there was extremely hot. As he confirmed later in the afternoon, his collapse was due to the heat and tiredness because of the antibiotics he was taking after a knee operation. Next came the news that he was going to stay in the hospital for the next 24 hours, because “they found something on the electrocardiogram”, as Mr Berlusconi told journalists.

Romano Prodi, the current prime minister expressed in public that he was "particularly disturbed and worried to hear about what happened". He said he was convinced the problem was not serious and wished his opponent a rapid recovery.