{"id":12529,"date":"2014-02-14T04:06:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/italian-pm-enrico-letta-to-resign-today\/"},"modified":"2014-02-14T04:06:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T04:06:13","slug":"italian-pm-enrico-letta-to-resign-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/italian-pm-enrico-letta-to-resign-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian PM Enrico Letta to Resign Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4211 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/vn-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has said he will resign on Friday after his Democratic Party backed a call for a new administration.}}<\/p>\n<p>Party leader Matteo Renzi had earlier called for a change of government at a party meeting, saying the country could not go on in &#8220;uncertainty&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation has been rife that Mr Renzi wants to take over as prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>He is eight years younger than Mr Letta and was elected leader of the party in December.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Letta said in a statement that his decision followed &#8220;the decision taken today by the national leadership of the Democratic Party&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would formally submit his resignation to President Giorgio Napolitano at the presidential palace on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between Mr Letta and Mr Renzi had become increasingly fraught, the BBC&#8217;s Alan Johnston reports from Rome.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party now hopes that Mr Renzi will be able to replace him, and form a new administration, our correspondent adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta has said he will resign on Friday after his Democratic Party backed a call for a new administration.}} Party leader Matteo Renzi had earlier called for a change of government at a party meeting, saying the country could not go on in &#8220;uncertainty&#8221;. Speculation has been rife that Mr Renzi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000050339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000050339,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12529.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12529.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12529.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12529.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12529.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton12529.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000050339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=12529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}