Ex-premier Enrico Letta told a TV
talk show at the weekend he is quitting as Lower House MP for
the ruling Democratic Party (PD).
"I am resigning from this parliament," he said, adding he
is waiving his parliamentary pension and moving to Paris to work
at the Sciences Po school of international relations.
The ex-premier added he is not quitting the PD - of which
he is a co-founder - and he hopes the party won't split.
"That would be an error on everyone's part," he said.
Letta also said he thinks the next general election will be
in 2018.
His seat goes to 37-year-old computer scientist and
mother-of-two Beatrice Brignone, from the Marche seaside resort
of Senigallia.
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