Mario Monti would consider second time as Italian leader
The Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti says that he now siding with one party in the upcoming elections, but remains available for future government. Mario Monti said he was willing to form a coalition committed to its reform in order to lead.
The Acting Prime Minister said that he was not able to make an offer of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to lead a centrist coalition accept. Elections are held in February. Mario Monti came back after Berlusconi's party withdrew its support.
Mario Monti was nominated as technocratic prime minister in November 2011, after Mr Berlusconi's center-right coalition government fell in the middle of a financial and economic crisis.
Speaking at a press conference in Rome, called Mario Monti Italian parties not to destroy it, he said, was that his government's performance in saving Italy out of the crisis.
"The financial emergency has been overcome," he said. "The Italians can back up their heads high as citizens of Europe." BBC David Willey said Mario Monti, whose potential role in the February elections has been the subject of intense speculation in Italy, is playing his cards close to his chest - while keeping its options open.
Mario Monti, 69, is an economist and former European Commissioner, who first served as a minister under Berlusconi in 1994.
He made contradictory statements about whether he would remain in politics before launching into his sixth campaign. Recent opinion polls show the center-left Democratic Party, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, the most votes in a general election victory.
The Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti says that he now siding with one party in the upcoming elections, but remains available for future government. Mario Monti said he was willing to form a coalition committed to its reform in order to lead.
The Acting Prime Minister said that he was not able to make an offer of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to lead a centrist coalition accept. Elections are held in February. Mario Monti came back after Berlusconi's party withdrew its support.
Mario Monti was nominated as technocratic prime minister in November 2011, after Mr Berlusconi's center-right coalition government fell in the middle of a financial and economic crisis.
Speaking at a press conference in Rome, called Mario Monti Italian parties not to destroy it, he said, was that his government's performance in saving Italy out of the crisis.
Mario Monti, 69, is an economist and former European Commissioner, who first served as a minister under Berlusconi in 1994.
He made contradictory statements about whether he would remain in politics before launching into his sixth campaign. Recent opinion polls show the center-left Democratic Party, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, the most votes in a general election victory.
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