Italian PM Letta resigns, opening way for Renzi Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta announced his resignation on Thursday after his own party voted for a change of government, with 39-year-old leftist Matteo Renzi now expected to replace him. Members of the centre-left Democratic Party's governing directorate voted 136 for and 16 against to a motion requesting a change of government submitted by Renzi in a dramatic climax to a weeks-long feud with Letta. Images and soundbites of Ignazio Marino, mayor of Rome, speaking to the press after the meeting