Becoming a serious businessman and investing in Italy is my latest ambition. Aside from the good weather, Italy has beautiful business women and also beautiful secretaries.

Those are not my words; they are the words of no less a person than the former leader of that brilliant country, Silvio Berlusconi. And he should know; Italy's richest man has landed himself in hot soup quite a few times, thanks to the irresistible women.

Only last week, his wife, the 50-year-old Veronica, was up in arms after our man paid too much attention to two young and beautiful guests at an awards ceremony.

“If I weren't married, I would marry you right now,” he reportedly said to one. And to the other: “With you, I would go anywhere.” Mind you, it's a 70-year-old, whose heart beats with the help of a pacemaker, saying all the right things.

When word of what her mischievous husband had been up to got round to Veronica, she was enraged. So enraged that she would have pulled out his hair, if he hadn't already lost it because, according to him, he had too many girlfriends. (He has hair transplants, but then, those are probably not worth pulling).

In the event, she fired off a missive to the newspaper he hates most, demanding an apology from him for flirting publicly. “These are statements I consider damaging to my dignity,” wrote Veronica, according to The New York Times.

Mr. Berlusconi obliged. In his public apology, he promised to guard her dignity “like a precious material in my heart even when thoughtless jokes come out of my mouth.” He signed it with “A huge kiss. Silvio.”

I am pretty sure when Veronica read the apology, all her anger just melted away. Unless, of course, she is so heartless that she would crucify an old man who apologies with “a huge kiss” for merely making a couple of “thoughtless jokes.”

Now, here is a man who deserves a third term which, by the way, he is seeking. Even when he is caught pants down, he has the ingenuity to charm his way out of trouble.

Italians should give him the third term, if only because he will bring much-needed colour to the country's politics, which has gone dour since he lost his re-election bid last year. I mean, which other politician opens a political conference by praising the legs of the women in the front row?

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