Prodi gets backing of coalition partners to stay in office
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Italy's prime minister Romano Prodi, who resigned earlier this week, has won the backing from parties in his ruling coalition to continue in office, his spokesman said on Friday.
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ROME  -  The quarrelsome allies of Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi rallied to his side late Wednesday, voting to restore him to office but laying bare ongoing challenges likely to undermine the new ...Comment
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Italy's Romano Prodi was expected on Wednesday to win the backing of the upper house to remain as prime minister but an opinion poll suggested that his grip on power would remain tenuous.
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Italy's center-left leaders have agreed to  back Romano Prodi's bid to stay on as prime minister, boosting  his chances of ending a crisis that risks plunging the country  into political paralysis.
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Italy's president has asked Romano ProdiA to stay on as prime minister and face a new vote of confidence in parliament, rejecting his resignation announced earlier in the week.Comment
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ROME â Prime Minister Romano Prodi of Italy vowed to preserve his staggering government on Tuesday, defending his record in an address to Parliament and calling a confidence vote to be held on Wednesday.
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Italy's Romano Prodi was expected to win the backing of the upper house on Wednesday to remain as prime minister, but an opinion poll suggested that his grip on power would remain weak.
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Italian center-left Prime Minister Romano Prodi won the confidence vote in Senate on Wednesday evening.Comment
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Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in Italy's upper house on Wednesday to stay on as prime minister, but an opinion poll suggested his grip on power would remain weak.
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi expressed his country's support Saturday for Lebanon's pro-Western Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, who has been pressured to resign by hundreds of thousands of Hizbullah supporters ...Comment
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Romano Prodi's center-left government has a new lease on life. But if the past nine months are any indication, his allies will not make it easy for him.Comment
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A party that supports the former prime minister appeared to be ahead of one backed by the generals who ousted him.
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Premier Romano Prodi won a confidence vote Wednesday in the Senate, ensuring the survival of his center-left government.
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi kept his fractious center-left coalition together to win a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, ensuring the immediate survival of his nine-month-old government.
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Italian center-left leader Romano Prodi was reconfirmed as prime minister on Friday when he won a second and final confidence vote in parliament, ending a political crisis and ensuring there will be no snap ...Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi finally won Senate approval Friday for a bill linked to the 2008 budget after telling members of his fractious coalition to sort out their loyalties, ANSA news agency reported.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party voted to support talks to bring Labor and other opposition parties into the coalition to keep the government afloat after it lost its last remaining partner a week ago.