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Pietro Grasso 'ready' to become Italian premier

Senate Speaker widely touted as more neutral than Bersani

21 March, 13:28
Pietro Grasso 'ready' to become Italian premier (ANSA) - Rome, March 21 - Senate Speaker and former national anti-Mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso said Thursday he was "ready for anything" when asked about becoming premier.

Grasso, from the center-left Democratic Party (PD), has been widely touted as a more neutral candidate than PD head Pier Luigi Bersani.

The PD said Thursday it would ask Napolitano to form a "government of change" led by Bersani.

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