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42. Italy PM Letta pledges reform pact in January

Mon Dec 23, 2013, 10:07 AM

Dec 2013

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/12/23/uk-italy-politics-idUKBRE9BM0G520131223

(Reuters) - Prime Minister Enrico Letta promised on Monday to include a swift reform of Italy's widely criticised electoral law and cuts to bureaucracy and taxes in a new coalition pact to be worked out in January.

Letta, who is 47, said that 2014 would be a year in which a new generation of leaders would be able to begin reforms to pull Italy out of two decades of stagnation.

"I have been part of this change and I feel the full weight of responsibility. This generation will have the opportunity of changing Italy and I am convinced it can do it."

He dismissed suggestions that his authority could be undermined by the election of Matteo Renzi as head of his centre-left Democratic Party (PD), saying the 38-year-old Renzi's arrival was part of an "unprecedented" generational change in Italian politics.

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