Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is set to resign this weekend and former European Commissioner Mario Monti is widely expected to take over as head of a broadly-based national unity government. Here are some of the names being tipped by media and political sources as possible ministers in a government led by Mr. Monti.
April, 2000, file photo of former Italian prime minister Giuliano Amato. (GABRIEL BOUYS/Gabriel Bouys/AFP)
Italian Finance Minister, Guilio Tremonti (R) and Vittorio Grilli, attend the Group of Seven meetings at The Treasury Department, May, 2005, in Washington, DC. (ANDREW COUNCILL/Andrew Councill/AFP/Getty Images)
A February, 2009, file photo of Italian member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank Lorenzo Bini Smaghi. (Riccardo De Luca/Riccardo De Luca/AP)
A July, 2007, file photo of European Union Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security Franco Frattini. (THIERRY CHARLIER/Thierry Charlier/AP)
L-R: A July, 2009, file photo of Laureen Harper, wife of Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italy's Education Minister Mariastella Gelmini, and Gursharan Kaur, wife of India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. (TONY GENTILE/Tony Gentile/Reuters)
A February, 2006, file photo of then-Italian culture minister Rocco Buttiglione. (TONY GENTILE/Tony Gentile/Reuters)
Italian Lawmakers observe a minute of silence in memory of their colleague Pietro Franzoso prior to the start of a voting session at the Lower Chamber, in Rome, Nov. 8, 2011. (Andrew Medichini/Andrew Medichini/AP)
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