Prodi: Cabinet list is ready
(AP)
Updated: 2006-05-17 14:53
Italian Premier-designate Romano Prodi said he had finalized his Cabinet and
expected to form a government on Wednesday.
Italy's incoming
center-left prime minister Romano Prodi arrives at the Quirinale Palace in
Rome, during Italy's new president Giorgio Napolitano's formal round of
talks with leaders of all political parties. Italy's president formally
tasked Prodi with forming Italy's new government, more than a month after
the leader won a bitterly contested general election.
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"The Cabinet list is wrapped up and it ended well," Prodi said early
Wednesday after emerging from a final session with his allies which had begun
Tuesday night.
Prodi must return to the presidential palace to inform the new head of state,
President Giorgio Napolitano, who gave him the formal mandate on Tuesday, that
he is ready to form a government.
A swearing-in ceremony would quickly follow.
Then, five weeks after narrowly wining parliamentary elections, Prodi and his
allies can finally get down to the business of governing and end the political
limbo that followed his victory in bitterly contested
elections.
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