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Pan across Enrico Letta, Italian premier-designate, walking to podium in the Quirinale Presidential Palace  2. Cutaway of presidential guard  3. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Enrico Letta, Italy's premier-designate: \"It is a cabinet, a team of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Pan across Enrico Letta, Italian premier-designate, walking to podium in the Quirinale Presidential Palace  \u003cbr/\u003e2. Cutaway of presidential guard  \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Enrico Letta, Italy's premier-designate: \u003cbr/\u003e\"It is a cabinet, a team of ministers that has inside of it several features: know-how, rejuvenation and at the same time this record female presence, that I believe to be one of the biggest satisfactions we've achieved.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Wide of Letta shaking hands with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Giorgio Napolitano, Italian President: \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a political government, built in a institutional framework, respecting the rules of our parliamentary democracy. It is a government born from the political agreement among the parliamentary forces that together were, and will be able to guarantee to the government, the confidence in both chambers as per our constitution. This is and was the only possible government.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of Napolitano and Letta shaking hands  \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of political analyst Giovanni Orsina, deputy-director of the School of Government of Rome's Luiss-Guido Carli University, sits down  \u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Giovanni Orsina, deputy-director of the School of Government of Rome's Luiss-Guido Carli University:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As ever predictions in these situations are very difficult. In abstract before looking at this list I would have said that this is a government which is going to last more than we expect: 18 or 24 months, more or less. But also for the lack of alternatives, and because I believe parliament members are not particularly eager to get back to the polling booth and face new elections.\"\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid of list of ministers' names in Orsina's hands \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE (English) Giovanni Orsina, deputy-director of the School of Government of Rome's Luiss-Guido Carli University:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I expect that they will do something about the taxes, trying to lower them. This will of course open up the great problem of where to find the resources to lower them, but I think that some form of reform of taxation, not only reform, but less than a reduction of taxation is going to be one of the first steps.\" \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide exterior of Quirinale Presidential Palace  \u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid of EU and Italian flags  \u003cbr/\u003eCentre-left leader Enrico Letta forged a new Italian government on Saturday in a coalition with former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives, an unusual alliance of bitter rivals which broke a two-month political stalemate from inconclusive elections in the recession-mired country.\u003cbr/\u003eThe daunting achievement was pulled off by Letta, who will be sworn in as prime minister along with the new Cabinet on Sunday at the presidential Quirinal Palace.\u003cbr/\u003eLetta, 46, is a moderate with a reputation as a political bridge-builder.\u003cbr/\u003eHe is also the nephew of Berlusconi's long-time adviser, Gianni Letta, a relationship seen as smoothing over often nasty inter-action between the two main coalition partners.\u003cbr/\u003eServing as deputy premier and interior minister will be Berlusconi's top political aide, Angelino Alfano. \u003cbr/\u003eHe is a former justice minister who was the architect of legislation that critics say was tailor-made to help media mogul Berlusconi in his many judicial woes.\u003cbr/\u003eThe creation of the coalition capped the latest political comeback for Berlusconi, who was forced to resign in 2011 as Italy slid deeper in to the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Monday, Letta will be expected to lay out his strategy in Parliament in seeking required confidence votes from the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.\u003cbr/\u003eBerlusconi, a fervent anti-Communist, views Italy's left as a personal nemesis, and Letta's Democratic Party has some of its roots in what was the West's largest Communist Party.\u003cbr/\u003eLetta expressed \"sober satisfaction over the team we put together and its willingness\" to form a coalition.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It is a cabinet, a team of ministers that has inside of it several features: know-how, rejuvenation and at the same time this record female presence, that I believe to be one of the biggest satisfactions we've achieved,\" Letta said at a news conference. \u003cbr/\u003eOnly a few weeks earlier, the head of the Democrats, Pier Luigi Bersani, resigned from the party post in humiliation and he refused Berlusconi's offer for a \"grand coalition\" and futilely tried to form a government without the Centre-right. \u003cbr/\u003eLetta was a Bersani loyalist.\u003cbr/\u003eBersani hailed the coalition formula as a \"necessary compromise\" that gives the country \"freshness and solidarity.\"\u003cbr/\u003eThe Number 3 bloc in Parliament, the anti-establishment 5 Star Movement, is led by comic Beppe Grillo, who ruled out any alliance with the largely sullied political class that has ruled Italy for decades.\u003cbr/\u003ePresident Giorgio Napolitano, who tasked Letta with creating a government out of bitter rivals, called upon the coalition partners to work \"in a spirit of absolute, indispensable cohesion\" as they work for sorely needed political and economic reforms.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a political government, built in a institutional framework, respecting the rules of our parliamentary democracy. It is a government born from the political agreement among the parliamentary forces that together were, and will be able to guarantee to the government, the confidence in both chambers as per our constitution,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"This is and was the only possible government,\" the 87-year-old head of state added. \u003cbr/\u003eHe reluctantly agreed to be re-elected by Parliament earlier this month for another seven-year term because of the political instability.\u003cbr/\u003eItaly's economy is number three amongst eurozone members, and financial markets have been anxiously watching to see if an effective government could be formed to carry on with outgoing Premier Mario Monti's efforts to keep the country from sliding into the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.\u003cbr/\u003eVoters, fed up with new and higher taxes, including a despised property tax revived by Monti, rejected his severe austerity policies.\u003cbr/\u003eThe small centrist party created in time for the election by Monti, an economist and former European Union commissioner, will participate in the coalition, although Monti won't be in the Cabinet, which is heavy on two novelties - a large presence of female ministers and Italy's first black minister.\u003cbr/\u003eA native of Congo, Cecile Kyenge is a doctor who will serve as minister of integration. \u003cbr/\u003eProposals to make it easier for Italy's growing immigrant population to become citizens have gone nowhere in Parliament amid fierce opposition from the anti-immigrant Northern League party. \u003cbr/\u003eThe party, a Berlusconi ally, is not in the new government.\u003cbr/\u003eProminent among the women in the Cabinet is Emma Bonino, a former EU commissioner and Radical Party leader who will serve as foreign minister.\u003cbr/\u003eOlympic gold medal kayaker Josefa Idem was tapped as minister of equal opportunity and sports.\u003cbr/\u003eLetta comes from a moderate wing of the left-rooted Democratic Party that is close to the 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