{{Italian PM Enrico Letta is due to present the government’s 2014 programme as speculation mounts he is to be replaced by party leader Matteo Renzi.}}<\/p>\n
The two men held face-to-face talks on Wednesday about Italy’s latest political crisis.<\/p>\n
Mr Letta, who formed a Democratic Party-led (PD) coalition last April after an election stalemate, has been publicly criticised by Mr Renzi.<\/p>\n
Mr Renzi, the mayor of Florence, became PD leader last December.<\/p>\n
Their meeting on Wednesday morning lasted around an hour at the prime minister’s office, the Chigi palace, before Mr Renzi left without making a statement, reports say.<\/p>\n
Italian media reports speak of crucial hours for the future of the government, with a Democratic Party meeting scheduled for next week brought forward to Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
The 39-year-old mayor of Florence has already said he favours early general elections.<\/p>\n
The prime minister, whose coalition includes small centre-right parties, has said his reform programme, entitled “Commitment 2014”, will focus on “economic revival”.<\/p>\n
President Giorgio Napolitano, who appointed Mr Letta as prime minister, said a decision on the fate of the government was up to the PD.<\/p>\n
One centrist MP in the coalition, Andrea Romano, told Italian TV he hoped the prime minister would show “generosity” and allow the PD leader the chance to govern.<\/p>\n
But Renato Brunetta, a leading opposition politician with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, complained on Wednesday that Italy was returning to an era of unstable government.<\/p>\n
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