Former Italian PM Renzi formally hands over power to Gentiloni

Record ID: 76864

  • Title: Former Italian PM Renzi formally hands over power to Gentiloni
  • Date: 12th December 2016
  • Summary: ROME, ITALY (DECEMBER 12, 2016) (REUTERS) FORMER ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER MATTEO RENZI ARRIVING AND WARMLY GREETING AND HUGGING NEWLY APPOINTED ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER, PAOLO GENTILONI, AND GENTILONI'S WIFE, EMANUELA MAURO / GENTILONI AND RENZI LEAVING ROOM WORKER OF THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE HOLDING BELL AND TRAY GENTILONI AND RENZI RE-ENTERING ROOM / RENZI HANDING SILVER BELL TO GENTILONI AND HUGGING GENTILONI / RENZI GIVING GENTILONI SWEATSHIRT WITH THE TEXT "AMATRICE" ON FRONT GENTILONI GIVING BELL TO WORKER VARIOUS OF GENTILONI, RENZI, NEWLY APPOINTED UNDERSECRATARY OF STATE, MARIA ELENA BOSCHI, AND OUTGOING UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE, CLAUDIO DE VINCETI, POSING FOR PHOTOS VARIOUS OF RENZI SPEAKING WITH UNIDENTIFIED MAN, GREETING BOSCHI AND GENTILONI AND LEAVING ROOM GENTILONI LEAVING ROOM MEDIA OUTSIDE CABINET MEETING ROOM VARIOUS OF GENTILONI RINGING BELL AS HE HOLDS FIRST CABINET MEETING WITH NEW GOVERNMENT
  • Embargoed: 27th December 2016 21:53
  • Keywords: Italy former prime minister Matteo Renzi Paolo Gentiloni bell handover ceremony
  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • City: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA0015CKYXXJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi formally handed over power to the newly appointed premier Paolo Gentiloni on Monday evening (December 12) in a hastily organised ceremony at the prime minister's office.
    Only an hour earlier Gentiloni and his cabinet ministers had been sworn into office by the Italian President Sergio Mattarella, with most of the outgoing ministers kept in place in a sign of continuity aimed at reassuring financial markets.
    Quickly moving across town, Gentiloni joined Renzi at the seat of the Italian government in Palazzo Chigi to be presented with a bell that Gentiloni later rang for the start of his first cabinet meeting.
    On Tuesday (December 13) there will be a vote of confidence on Gentiloni's government in the Chamber of Deputies, with another confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday (December 14).
    The Italian President has been trying to make sure Italy has a solid government ahead of an EU meeting in Brussels on Thursday (December 15).
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