Out on reuters
- priorities for govt in confidence vote to be set after consultation with coalition partners
Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta will seek a confidence vote in parliament on December 11 to confirm his new majority after Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party pulled out of the ruling coalition.
Matteo Renzi, the ambitious young mayor of Florence who appears set to win the centre-left PD party leadership on Sunday, has demanded that the center-left put its stamp more clearly on the coalition, prompting an angry reaction from the center-right.
The on-going Italian political turmoil is never far from the surface but not the main focus by any for euro watchers, especially with the ECB coming up on thursday.
Always one to keep an eye on though
