Italian Senate president in second day of talks to bandage crisis
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Italian Senate speaker Franco Marini, given the onerous task of building a team capable of carrying out electoral reforms and avoiding immediate polls, resumed crisis talks Friday with political leaders.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, his political survival on the line, asked the Senate on Thursday for an "explicit, principled" vote of confidence to allow his centre-left government to continue on the path of reforms.
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ROME - Italy's president began a new round of talks on Friday to see whether Romano Prodi can stay on as prime minister and guarantee a stable center-left government to end the country's ...Comment
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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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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Thursday he would take his case to the Senate as he struggles against increasing odds to save his centre-left government from collapse, the ANSA news agency reported.
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The Italian president asked Romano Prodi on Saturday to stay on as premier and face a new vote of confidence in parliament, seeking a swift end to the political crisis prompted by the government's resignation ...Comment
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Italy's president will hold crisis talks  with political leaders on Friday to see whether he can avoid  calling snap elections after a no confidence vote forced Prime  Minister Romano Prodi's government to resign.
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Italy's president asked the Senate speaker Wednesday to determine if an interim government can be formed to change the electoral law before early elections, an effort to end the country's political instability.
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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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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano began crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday in the wake of Prime Minister Romano Prodi's shock resignation because of a foreign policy defeat in the Senate.
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The Italian president consulted with political leaders Friday in talks on the formation of a new government following the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old Cabinet.Comment
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President Giorgio Napolitano will open talks on Friday to resolve Italy's political crisis after prime minister Romano Prodi's resignation and the end of his centre-left government.
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ROME - Italy's president holds crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned as prime minister after nine months in power, can still head a government or ...Comment
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano asks the Senate speaker to try to form an interim government.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Thursday he would go before the Senate as he struggles against increasing odds to save his centre-left government from collapse, the ANSA news agency reported.
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Italy's president held crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi could still head a government or must be replaced after resigning as prime minister after only nine months in power.Comment
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Gregorio Borgia -- AP Photo Italian President Giorgio Napolitano talks to journalists at Quirinale, Presidential palace, in Rome, Friday, Feb.Comment