ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta defied pressure to resign on Wednesday to let centre-left leader Matteo Renzi form a government, saying anyone who wanted him out must say so openly and outline what they would do in his place.
Letta's comments came at the end of a day of mounting tensions in Rome where the two men met for what the prime minister described as a "frank" encounter in his office.
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