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Letta returns, from enfant prodige to "scrapped"
Pupillo of Andreatta, minister at 32 and founder of the Democratic Party
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Enrico Letta during the National Assembly of the Democratic Party, in 2010 © ANSA
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In the picture of 21 October 1998 Giovanna Melandri, Rosy Bindi, Enrico Letta, Massimo D'Alema, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Antonio Bassolino © ANSA
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Carlo Azeglio Ciampi with Enrico Letta, Pierluigi Bersani, Vincenzo Visco and Piero Fassino on April 26, 2000 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta in Rome on April 27, 2000 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta and Umberto Agnelli during a press conference in Rome on 21 February 2001 © ANSA
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Pierluigi Bersani and Enrico Letta on 29 July 2003 © ANSA
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Massimo D'Alema with Franco Marini and Enrico Letta on 22 May 2004 © ANSA
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Romano Prodi, Enrico Letta and Silvio Berlusconi at Palazzo Chigi on 17 May 2006 © ANSA
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Massimo D'Alema, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa and Enrico Letta in Rome on 28 October 2006 © ANSA
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Walter Veltroni, Enrico Letta, Romano Prodi and Piero Fassino on 9 November 2007 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta and Sergio Marchionne in Rome in 2007 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta at Palazzo Chigi during the Council of Ministers in 2007 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta during the electoral tour on 5 June 2009, in Pisa and its province © ANSA
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Enrico Letta on 6 September 2009 in Milan © ANSA
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Mario Draghi with Enrico Letta on February 15th 2011 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta during his speech at the National Assembly of the Democratic Party at the Nuova Fiera di Roma, Rome, 21 January 2012 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta on 29 April 2013 © ANSA
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Barack Obama and Enrico Letta during the G8 in Lough Erne (Northern Ireland), 17 June 2013 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta welcomed by Angela Merkel in Berlin, 3 July 2013 © ANSA
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A moment of Enrico Letta's official visit to Pope Francis, 4 July 2013 © ANSA
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'Opening Bell' by then premier Enrico Letta on Wall Street, New York, 25 September 2013 © ANSA
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Enrico Letta and Matteo Renzi during the traditional ringing of the bell used by the premier to start the meetings of the CDM at Palazzo Chigi, Rome 22 February 2014 © ANSA
by Cristina Ferrulli
Enrico Letta returns home
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It was February 22, 2014 when the child prodigy of Italian politics did not leave Palazzo Chigi alone following the "scrapping" of Matteo Renzi.
His was a farewell to political politics, a deep passion inherited from his political 'father' Beniamino Andreatta, for the golden exile of Sciences Po's Ecole d'affaires internationales. , with the arduous task of saving the party he helped found in 2007.
Born in Pisa on 20 August 1966 and graduated in International Law, married, three children, AC Milan player, Subbuteo player, Letta attended compulsory school in Strasbourg, where he lived for years with his family, therefore in a European climate and pro-European.
He takes his first steps in the Popular Party, at 31 Franco Marini calls him as deputy secretary of the PPI, a year later at 32 D'Alema wants him in Community policies and Letta snatches Andreotti the primacy of the youngest minister in republican history.
The other Letta ', as with a good dose of self-irony defined himself with respect to the more famous uncle Gianni, Berlusconi's great adviser, in 2000 he moved to the Department of Industry, where he will remain with D'Alema and Amato presidents of the Council until 2001 At 46, he became the second youngest Prime Minister in the history of the Republic, after Giovanni Goria who became one at 43.
But the paradoxes of history mean that to unseat him after less than a year of government will be another enfant prodige of politics, the very young mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi who in less than two years climbs first the Democratic Party and then Palazzo Chigi.
The 'still image' nails Letta's political career to the icy passage of the bell with his successor, not even a handshake or a glance.
Since then, having left the seat in Montecitorio, the former prime minister has not given up on doing politics in other ways, founded two non-profit institutions, the School of Policies with which every year he tries to grow new generations and the Italian Association- Asean.
Today Letta's journey restarts from the love for the political creature she helped to create.
An ulivist of the first hour, he strongly supported the birth of Margherita in 2001 with the confluence of PPI, I Democratici, Rinnovamento italiano, and Udeur and in the spring of 2007 he was among the promoters of the marriage of Margherita and Ds to give life to the Democratic Party.
In the first primary of the same year he challenges Walter Veltroni, even knowing that he is the designated winner, and gets an unexpected 11 percent.
Heart and passion unite him in the experience as deputy secretary to Pier Luigi Bersani, elected leader of the Democratic Party in October 2009. The friendship between the two was born in Strasbourg where they were both MEPs between 2004 and 2006 and continued despite the troubled final of the Bersani secretariat, which collapsed under the blows of the 101st which sank the election of Romano Prodi to the presidency of the Republic and the niet of the early M5s which prevented a yellow-red government ante litteram.
Letta's challenge will now be, in addition to relaunching the Democratic Party, trying to re-tie the broken threads of the past.
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