With the clock ticking to pull Italy back from the brink of a full-blown debt crisis, the nation turned Sunday to a clinical-minded economist to take the reins of power after the resignation of its longtime playboy prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
Mario Monti, a 68-year-old former university president and European commissioner, was named interim prime minister, effectively charging him with the task of bringing Italy’s bickering political parties together behind a new transitional government.
For more: Italy names economist Mario Monti interim prime minister amid crisis - The Washington Post
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