Letta Challenges Renzi in Bid to Hold on in Italy
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The fate of Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s government rests in the hands of Matteo Renzi, his party’s head and the premier’s chief antagonist.
Renzi will address the Democratic Party’s council of leaders at 3 p.m. in Rome to settle the power struggle between Letta and the group that gave the 47-year-old premier his job 10 months ago. The Democratic Party, or PD, is Italy’s biggest political group, and Renzi, 39, may use it to make himself premier without passing through a general election.