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28 Apr 2013
Enrico Letta sworn in as new Italian PM
FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - After two months of an irreconcilable political deadlock, Enrico Letta, 46, and member of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), was sworn in as new Italian Prime Minister on Sunday.
Letta, who has managed to pull together a 21-member Cabinet, while becoming the third youngest Prime Minister since World War II, nominated an unprecedented seven women to his Cabinet. Fabrizio Saccomanni was appointed finance minister, taking on the responsibility to overlook and bring forward much needed economic reforms to the economy.
Mr. Letta will face serious challenges ahead, starting by steering a government which has a somehow reluctant bipartisan support from the two largest opposing political parties in Parliament.
The day was overshadowed by a sole incident taking place over a kilometer away from the swearing-in ceremony, when an Italian unemployed man, later identified as 49-year-old Luigi Preiti, was involved in a shooting inflicting severe injuries to two policemen. Prosecutors said the man claimed to have acted alone, initially targeting politicians but failing to spot them within range.
As reported by Reuters, citing lower house speaker Laura Boldrini: "Our politicians have to start providing solutions to the social crisis and to peoples' needs because the crisis transforms victims into killers like the man who shot today. There's a social emergency that needs answers and our politicians have to start giving them."
Letta, who has managed to pull together a 21-member Cabinet, while becoming the third youngest Prime Minister since World War II, nominated an unprecedented seven women to his Cabinet. Fabrizio Saccomanni was appointed finance minister, taking on the responsibility to overlook and bring forward much needed economic reforms to the economy.
Mr. Letta will face serious challenges ahead, starting by steering a government which has a somehow reluctant bipartisan support from the two largest opposing political parties in Parliament.
The day was overshadowed by a sole incident taking place over a kilometer away from the swearing-in ceremony, when an Italian unemployed man, later identified as 49-year-old Luigi Preiti, was involved in a shooting inflicting severe injuries to two policemen. Prosecutors said the man claimed to have acted alone, initially targeting politicians but failing to spot them within range.
As reported by Reuters, citing lower house speaker Laura Boldrini: "Our politicians have to start providing solutions to the social crisis and to peoples' needs because the crisis transforms victims into killers like the man who shot today. There's a social emergency that needs answers and our politicians have to start giving them."