Silvio Berlusconi owner of AC Milan football club, wins Italian election giving the conservative leader a third chance and a strong mandate to lift Italy’s ailing economy, but he faces a daunting task. More… Plagued by criminal trials, conflict-of-interest accusations and headline-making gaffes during two previous stints as prime minister he defied public opinion by sending troops to Iraq and passing laws that critics say kept him out of jail. And yet the flamboyant billionaire pulled it off with a political comeback in general elections on Sunday and Monday.