Italian President Napolitano nominates Renzi as prime minister

Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano on Monday nominated the secretary of the center-left Democratic Party (PD), Matteo Renzi, as the youngest prime minister ever in Italy after former Prime Minister Enrico Letta was forced to resign on Friday.

Napolitano summoned Renzi, the current mayor of Florence, to form a new coalition government that could pull the country out of a recession. Renzi will need the support of the smaller New Centre Right (NCD) party to claim majority in the parliament in order to become the prime minister of Italy.

"I accept this task with great sense of responsibility," said Renzi, who is promising economic reforms, which would allow guarantees in the area of tax and jobs policy. 

“The most pressing emergency, which concerns my generation and others, is the emergency of labour, of unemployment and of despair,” Renzi said. 

During a party meeting in Rome last week, Renzi proposed a new government to take over until the end of the current parliamentary term in 2018, underlining that the country could not go on in "uncertainty" with the existing leader Letta. 

Enrico Letta, whose center-left PD ousted him for Matteo Renzi, led a coalition government for about 10 months. 

englishnews@aa.com.tr