Italy PM calls confidence vote after ally defects
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi will put his weakened government to a vote of confidence in both houses of parliament, he told the lower house on Tuesday.
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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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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 PM Romano Prodi wins a vote of confidence in parliament but his coalition looks set to fall in the Senate.
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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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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 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 was to address the lower house of parliament Tuesday after former justice minister Clemente Mastella said his party, a former member of the ruling coalition, would vote against the government in a confidence motion.
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BUDAPEST -- Hungary's prime minister asked parliament yesterday to hold a vote of confidence in his government, which suffered major losses in municipal elections after weeks of protests demanding that he resign for lying about the economy. Ferenc Gyurcsany, asking that the vote be held Friday, said he recognized that it would be about him as well as his government's ...
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ROME -- Italy's president yesterday asked Romano Prodi to stay on as prime minister and face a confidence vote to test his majority in parliament.
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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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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday survived a close vote of confidence in the Senate, ending a weeklong political crisis after his shock resignation.
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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 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 PM Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in his coalition in the Senate on Wednesday.
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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 days ago.
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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.