(ANSA) - Rome, October 31 - Paolo Gentiloni will be Italy's new foreign minister, ANSA sources said Friday. The 59-year-old former communications minister will replace Federica Mogherini, who quit the post Friday as she is poised to become the European Union's new high representative for foreign affairs and security policy.
Gentiloni and Mogherini are both senior members of Premier Matteo Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party (PD). Gentiloni, communications minister in Romano Prodi's 2006-2008 government, will probably be sworn in later on Friday, the sources said.
Gentiloni to replace Mogherini as foreign minister
Mogherini quit post to become EU foreign affairs representative