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What Makes a Great Political Survivor?

We discuss the qualities of controversial world leaders past and present.

We discuss the qualities of controversial world leaders past and present, in light of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's string of courtroom dramas. And, Zimbabwe's President Mugabe is to extend his 33-year rule after winning a seventh term.

(Image: Collage of images of Silvio Berlusconi. Credit: AFP)

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Fri 2 Aug 201317:06GMT
BBC World Service Online

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