Italy PM calls confidence vote after ally defects
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi will call a confidence in the lower house of parliament to test support for his administration after an ally deserted his centre-left coalition, a party leader said on Tuesday.
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Italy's president held crisis talks on Thursday to determine whether Romano Prodi, who resigned after losing a Senate vote, has enough support to be reappointed prime minister or must be replaced.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi went  to see the president on Thursday, witnesses said, as he decided  whether to face a Senate confidence vote, which he is expected  to lose, or to resign after being weakened by defections.
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Italy's president asked Romano Prodi to stay on as prime minister on Saturday, but he now faces a confidence vote in parliament to prove he has enough support to govern.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will brave a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday despite expectations that he will lose and be forced to resign.
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Rome- Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was due to address the Senate later on Tuesday ahead of a do-or-die vote of confidence taking place in parliament's upper house on Wednesday.Comment
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Italy&#39;s lower house of parliament will hold a confidence vote today on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s 2005 budget plan, which includes tax cuts and 24 billion euros ($32.7 billion) in deficit-reduction measures.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, reeling from a crushing round of Senate votes and infighting by allies, demanded a clear show of unity from his fractured centre-left coalition on Thursday.
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A defiant Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Tuesday called a vote of confidence in the Senate, where his coalition has a two-seat deficit.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who resigned over a foreign policy defeat last week only to be reappointed a few days later, will fight for his government's survival as he faces a confidence vote this week.
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ROME -- Italy's president asked Romano Prodi on Saturday to stay on as premier and put his center-left government to a new vote of confidence in Parliament, seeking a swift end to the political crisis prompted by the cabinet's resignation days ago.
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ITALY ROME -- Italian center-left leader Romano Prodi was confirmed as prime minister yesterday when he won a second and final confidence vote in parliament, ending a political crisis and ensuring there will be no election to replace him. He won by 342 votes to 198 with 2 abstentions in the lower house, a much wider margin than in Wednesday's ...
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who faces almost certain defeat if the opposition-controlled Senate holds a vote of confidence in his government, will meet President Giorgio Napolitano on Thursday before deciding whether to resign instead, media reports said.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi faces a knife-edge vote of confidence in his leadership, a week after he was forced to resign over a humiliating foreign policy defeat in the Senate.Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament on Wednesday, the heads of parliamentary groups said after the centre-left government lost a key ally.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday survived a close vote of confidence in the Senate, ending a weeklong political crisis after his resignation.
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The Italian President is to announce his decision on whether Romano Prodi should be reinstated as Prime Minister after a Senate rebellion forced his shock resignation.Comment