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Enrico Letta

Enrico Letta
Enrico Letta 2013.jpg
55th Prime Minister of Italy
In office
28 April 2013 – 22 February 2014
President Giorgio Napolitano
Deputy Angelino Alfano
Preceded by Mario Monti
Succeeded by Matteo Renzi
Minister of Agriculture
Interim
In office
27 January 2014 – 22 February 2014
Prime Minister Himself
Preceded by Nunzia De Girolamo
Succeeded by Maurizio Martina
Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party
In office
7 November 2009 – 20 April 2013
Secretary Pier Luigi Bersani
Preceded by Dario Franceschini
Succeeded by Debora Serracchiani
Lorenzo Guerini
Secretary to the Council of Ministers
In office
17 May 2006 – 8 May 2008
Prime Minister Romano Prodi
Preceded by Gianni Letta
Succeeded by Gianni Letta
Minister of Industry
In office
22 December 1999 – 11 June 2001
Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema
Giuliano Amato
Preceded by Pier Luigi Bersani
Succeeded by Antonio Marzano
Minister of European Affairs
In office
21 October 1998 – 22 December 1999
Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema
Preceded by Lamberto Dini
Succeeded by Patrizia Toia
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
30 May 2001 – 23 July 2015
Constituency Marche (2013–15)
Lombardy 2 (2008–13)
Lombardy 1 (2006–08)
Piedmont 1 (2001–04)
Member of the European Parliament
In office
14 June 2004 – 10 April 2006
Constituency Northeast Italy
Personal details
Born (1966-08-20) 20 August 1966 (age 50)
Pisa, Italy
Political party DC (Before 1994)
PPI (1994–2002)
DL (2002–2007)
PD (2007–present)
Spouse(s) Gianna Fregonara
Children 3
Alma mater University of Pisa
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website Official website

Enrico Letta (pronounced [enˌriːko ˈlɛtta]; born 20 August 1966) is an Italian politician who was Prime Minister of Italy from 2013 to 2014, leading a grand coalition comprising the centre-left Democratic Party, the centre-right People of Freedom, and the centrist Civic Choice. He has also been a Member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006. Letta was Minister of European Affairs from 1998 to 1999 and Minister of Industry from 1999 to 2001, and served as Secretary to the Council of Ministers from 2006 to 2008.

Letta is a founding member of the Democratic Party; formerly he belonged to Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party and The Daisy. His uncle is centre-right politician Gianni Letta, a trusted advisor of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

Enrico Letta was born in Pisa, Tuscany, to Giorgio Letta, an Abruzzo-born professor of mathematics who teaches probability theory at the University of Pisa (member of the Accademia dei Lincei and of the Accademia nazionale delle scienze), and Anna Banchi, a Sardinian born in Sassari and raised in Porto Torres of Tuscan origins. Born into a numerous family, uncles on his father's side include the centre-right politician Gianni Letta—a close advisor of Silvio Berlusconi—and the archeologist Cesare Letta, while one of his paternal aunts, Maria Teresa Letta, is vice president of the Italian Red Cross; a maternal great-uncle is the poet and playwright Gian Paolo Bazzoni.


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