Italy's Prodi wins key confidence vote to stay PM
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the Senate on Wednesday, allowing him to stay in office and drawing an end to a political crisis prompted by his resignation a week ago.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi made a final plea for Italy's parliament to back his government on Thursday in a confidence vote he looked set to lose, saying the economy could not bear more political uncertainty.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi decided Thursday to go ahead with a vote of confidence before the Senate, the ANSA news agency reported after the embattled centre-left leader met for a second time with President Giorgio Napolitano.
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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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Italy's president asked Romano Prodi on  Saturday to stay on as prime minister and face a confidence  vote to test his majority in parliament.
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The Italian Senate prepares to hold a vote of confidence in Romano Prodi's nine-month-old government.
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Italy's president asked Romano Prodi on Saturday to stay on and face a confidence vote in parliament, as leaders in the center-left majority courted outside senators in a frantic effort to ensure the ...Comment
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi  rallied support on Wednesday for two confidence votes that will  determine the survival of his centre-left government after the  defection of an ally erased his Senate majority.
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Italy's embattled Prime Minister Romano Prodi may decide to resign rather than risk losing a vote of confidence in the opposition-controlled Senate, Italian media reported Wednesday.
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Leaders of Italy's center-left coalition have agreed to support Romano Prodi's bid to stay on as prime minister, backing him on a 12-point political program, Prodi's spokesman said on Thursday.
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Premier Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament Friday, formally ending Italy's political crisis, but questions lingered over his fractious Cabinet's ability to govern effectively.Comment
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Italian leaders are locked in talks on a deal allowing Romano Prodi to stay as PM in a bid to end a political crisis.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's embattled centre-left government on Wednesday won a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies by 326 to 275, speaker Fausto Bertinotti announced.
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Romano Prodi, given a second chance to prove that he can govern Italy, scrambled for support on Sunday ahead of a vote of confidence this week that he must win to stay on as prime minister.
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Italy's Romano Prodi is scrambling for  support ahead of a vote of confidence this week which he must  win to stay on as prime minister.
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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 Prime Minister Romano Prodi, his political survival on the line, asked the opposition-controlled Senate on Thursday for an "explicit, principled" vote of confidence in his 20-month-old centre-left government.