Silvio Berlusconi (help·info) (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, meia proprietor, and Prime Minister of Italy (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy), a position he has held three times; 1994-1995, 2001-2006 and since 2008. He is the leader of the Forza Italia political movement, a centre-right party he founded in 1993. Before the 2008 Italian general election he announced his intention to establish a new political party, People of Freedom, to be constituted by the merging of Forza Italia with the National Alliance party, and several other conservative parties later in 2008. His victory in the 2008 general election paved the way for the fourth term as prime minister.