Berlusconi was carrying out a phased, nationalist, conservative, austerity and growth policy until ousted by the EU Central Committe not the Italian electorate.
President Sarkozy, as conservative a French politician as they get, who began to trim the public sector, was forced out by a collective effort of French socialists and EU Central Committee collectivists.
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Berlusconi is a fascist, not a conservative. Fascists have always been against the purely Marxist left. Same goes for Netanyahu-hatin’ Sarkozy (although he’s not as far into that sphere as people like LePen).