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Enrico Letta, back from Paris to tackle Italian policits. Is he 'really the last hope for the Democratic Party'? (Photo: Bellabona Foto)

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Letta's comeback - Italian politics' Count of Monte Christo

In a new twist in Italy's chaotic politics, the assembly of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) last weekend elected former prime minister Enrico Letta as its new secreatary - almost unanimously.

Letta returned to Italy from Paris (where he self-exiled in 2015, a year after then PD's secretary Matteo Renzi sank his government) to take over from Nicola Zingaretti, who left office a fortnight ago due to splits within the party.

Italian newspapers have likened Letta to the

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Valentina Saini is a freelance journalist specialising in Italian social issues and politics, gender issues and the Middle East and North Africa region.

Enrico Letta, back from Paris to tackle Italian policits. Is he 'really the last hope for the Democratic Party'? (Photo: Bellabona Foto)

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Valentina Saini is a freelance journalist specialising in Italian social issues and politics, gender issues and the Middle East and North Africa region.

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