Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta addresses a news conference during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels May 22, 2013. REUTERS/Laurent Dubrule
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta hopes to lift his bruised centre-left party in local elections that conclude on Monday, strengthening his hold over an uneasy coalition government with its traditional rivals on the centre-right.
The votes in Rome and other cities will have no direct effect on the national government but will test the fragile partnership between Letta's centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and the centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) party of former premier Silvio Berlusconi.
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