Mr Berlusconi spoke almost nonstop for nearly four hours and hit on almost all aspects of Italian political life, current international affairs and his own personal legal problems.
He quashed rumours that he intended to stand in the election as President, when the term for the incumbent head of State ends in 2013.
But he did not exclude some future political role for himself as a father figure who would advise future Center-right coalitions.
"I do policy because I believe that my country needs me," he said.
By the Italian ANSA News Agency, spokesman for Mr. Berlusconi Paulo Banaiuti said that the remarks were merely hypothetical and do not reflect any concrete plan.
The controversial leader took part in an increasingly bitter battle with which it calls leftist magistrates who he accuses of trying to overthrow the democratic system in Italy focusing the forged accusations.
In confidential remarks to foreign journalists Tuesday disclosed to Italian news agencies, said Prime Minister old magistrates to 74 years had declared war on the Government and represented a "cancer" on the Italian system.
Mr Berlusconi attacks will coincide with the launch of several cases against him, including the trial called of Rubygate which he is accused of paying for sex with a dancer Moroccan teenage.
Trials have been previously suspended by a measure adopted by his Government to claim that his official duties meant he didn't have enough time to prepare his defence and could therefore claim immunity from all in the first instance to the Office.
The Constitutional Court ruled against it in January, prompting the magistrates to reopen trials of fraud and corruption and to bring the case of prostitution in the courts.
Mr Berlusconi, who became Prime Minister in 1994, has a fortune estimated at $ 8.7 billion and his business empire includes three main private stations the Italy.
- BBC/Reuters.
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