Is Matteo Renzi ready to be the next Italian prime minister?

AGED just 39, Italy’s brash centre-left leader Matteo Renzi could be in line to be the next prime minister with a wave of support from Italians who seem to like his brand of plain-speaking and web-savvy politics.
Elected leader of the Democratic Party in December, the photogenic former boy scout is liked because he has never been in government or parliament on a national political scene tainted by corruption scandals.