Italian PM faces early poll call
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Italy's ex-justice minister confirms he will not rejoin the the governing coalition and calls for early elections.
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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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Romano Prodi expected to resign tonight after a confidence vote in parliament
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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 called Senate speaker Franco Marini to a meeting on Wednesday, fuelling speculation that the second highest-ranking official in the country could be asked to head an interim government.
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Opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi called for immediate elections at a meeting with the Italian president on Tuesday, seeking a return to power after the collapse of the centre-left government last week.
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Abortion, not usually a major election topic in Italy, is playing an important role in early campaigning for April's parliamentary elections.
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Italy's president dissolved parliament on  Wednesday and the caretaker government prepared to call a snap  election, likely in mid-April, that could mark a return to  power of media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
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Prime Minister Romano Prodi faced a confidence vote in parliament on Friday over his efforts to push through an unpopular budget he described as bitter medicine that Italy has to swallow to get its finances in order.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Wednesday faces a crunch vote of confidence in his leadership, a week after he was forced to resign over a humiliating foreign policy defeat in parliament.
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Italy's president will decide on Saturday whether Romano Prodi deserves another chance to lead the nation as prime minister after a Senate rebellion forced his shock 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
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Romano Prodi looked set Friday to be renamed as Italy's prime minister after securing the backing of his fractious ruling coalition with the threat of a new election.
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Embattled Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi prepared on Wednesday to face the first of two votes of confidence as his centre-left government teetered on the brink of collapse.
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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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The Italian Senate prepares to hold a vote of confidence in Romano Prodi's nine-month-old government.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is expected in Libya for talks on how to tackle illegal mass migration from North Africa.