The economy ministry said Tuesday it has started a fast track procedure for selling "approximately12.5% of the share capital" of Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), the equivalent of 157,461,214 shares.
The move comes after the ministry launched a similar procedure to cede 20% of the share capital in November as part of plans to privatize the world's oldest continually trading bank.
In 2017 the Italian State bailed out the Tuscan lender by taking around a 70% stake.
Photo: Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti
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