Prodi loses Senate vote and must resign
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi lost a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday and went to hand his resignation to the president, prompting opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi to demand immediate elections.
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ROME  -  Stung by a bruising foreign policy defeat, beleaguered Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned Wednesday, his center-left government collapsing after just nine months in power.Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's government is "inclined to" present its resignation to the president following a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy, a center-left political source said on Wednesday.
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Former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi hit the campaign trail Friday without waiting to find out if the country faces early elections as a result of Premier Romano Prodi's resignation, which followed a humiliating defeat in a Senate vote.
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ROME -- Stung by a bruising foreign policy defeat, Italy's beleaguered Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned yesterday, his center-left government collapsing after just nine months in power.
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi, facing shrinking odds of winning a vote of confidence in the opposition-controlled Senate, is considering resigning instead of facing the test, media reports said Wednesday.
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Romano Prodi looks set to win a Senate  confidence vote on Wednesday to stay as Italy's prime minister  after rallying fractious allies behind him to end a political  crisis triggered by his resignation a week ago.
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Castelfranco report - Download 284k Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, exactly one week after he submitted his resignation.Comment
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Italian PM Romano Prodi has resigned, following a defeat in the Senate over the deployment of Italian troops in Afghanistan, and plans to expand a US airbase in northern Italy; several members of Prodi's ...Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his resignation to the president after suffering a major defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy, Infrastructure Minister Antonio Di Pietro said on Wednesday.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano held crisis talks with political leaders after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi because of a foreign policy defeat in the Senate.
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Italy's president accepted Prime Minister  Romano Prodi's resignation on Wednesday following the  government's defeat in a Senate vote on foreign policy.
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"I will not negotiate, I will not discuss. It's over."  A key ally of Premier Romano Prodi pulled his party from the Cabinet on Monday amid a corruption scandal, sending the center-left governing coalition scrambling to keep the administration from falling.Prodi, who presided at strategy talks Monday night, planned to address Parliament about the crisis Tuesday. Taking a break from the talks, a senator in Prodi's coalition hinted to reporters that the premier could call for a confidence vote by lawmakers.Prodi 'will put the crisis in the hands of Parliament,' said Sen. Roberto Manzione. Read more
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Premier Romano Prodi resigned on Wednesday after an embarrassing loss in the Italian Senate on foreign policy.Comment
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With spumante and melodrama spilling out among legislators, Prime Minister Roman Prodi submits his resignation
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi had to decide on Thursday whether to resign or risk a confidence vote he would be expected to lose, obliging his centre-left government to step down anyway.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned after losing a confidence vote in the Senate,  ending his 20 turbulent months in office.