A changing of the guard in Italy.
Thirty-nine-year-old Matteo Renzi is expected to become the country's youngest-ever prime minister.
This comes after he joined the rest of the Democratic Party leadership voting to remove the Prime Minister, saying he didn't do enough to pull the country out of the worst recession since World War Two.
Meanwhile on Friday, a rather modest vehicle for a prime minister pulls into the Presidential Palace.
It's Enrico Letta, and he's here to hand his resignation to the president.
Italians have mixed reactions.
(SOUNDBITE) (Italian) ROME RESIDENT MASSIMO CANDINI SAYING:
"Most Italians will not understand this so-called relay. It's clear that Letta's government wasn't very fast in implementing reforms and got a bit stuck but I don't know about this change of guard. Now we'll need to see if Renzi will be able to accelerate the indispensable reforms that are necessary, there seems to be too much talk and not enough act
Thirty-nine-year-old Matteo Renzi is expected to become the country's youngest-ever prime minister.
This comes after he joined the rest of the Democratic Party leadership voting to remove the Prime Minister, saying he didn't do enough to pull the country out of the worst recession since World War Two.
Meanwhile on Friday, a rather modest vehicle for a prime minister pulls into the Presidential Palace.
It's Enrico Letta, and he's here to hand his resignation to the president.
Italians have mixed reactions.
(SOUNDBITE) (Italian) ROME RESIDENT MASSIMO CANDINI SAYING:
"Most Italians will not understand this so-called relay. It's clear that Letta's government wasn't very fast in implementing reforms and got a bit stuck but I don't know about this change of guard. Now we'll need to see if Renzi will be able to accelerate the indispensable reforms that are necessary, there seems to be too much talk and not enough act
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