mounted a successful campaign to bring his party back into leadership and became Prime Minister once again in 2001.
Following Forza Italia's decline in popularity, Berlusconi formed a new government in 2005, but lost his bid for re-election in 2006. In 2013, Italy's high court upheld a conviction for tax fraud, but his sentence was reduced to a mere one-year — it was the first conviction against Berlusconi that stuck.