ITALY: New Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti easily wins Lower House confidence vote

Record ID: 327626

  • Title: ITALY: New Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti easily wins Lower House confidence vote
  • Date: 19th November 2011
  • Summary: ROME, ITALY (NOVEMBER 18, 2011) (REUTERS) VOTING IN PROGRESS IN PARLIAMENT PARLIAMENTARIANS SHAKING HANDS WITH NEW ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER MARIO MONTI AFTER VOTING VARIOUS OF PARLIAMENTARIANS VOTING ENDING VOTE RESULT BEING ANNOUNCED WITH 556 IN FAVOUR AND 61 AGAINST VARIOUS OF PARLIAMENTARIANS CONGRATULATING MONTI
  • Embargoed: 4th December 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Italy, Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVACO0G97AL7CYOM3NR5R1MJ5232
  • Story Text: Italy's new prime minister won an overwhelming vote of confidence on Friday (November 18) after warning politicians they would have to face the Italian public if they sabotaged a sweeping package of reforms aimed at ending an acute debt crisis.
    Mario Monti won the vote by 556 to 61 after a similar comfortable vote in the upper house on Thursday (November 17). His unelected government of technocrats is now fully empowered.
    Monti, who also holds the economy portfolio, has outlined to parliament a broad raft of painful reforms to shore up public finances and increase competitiveness after a decade of stagnant growth.
    He was appointed on Wednesday (November 16) to succeed Silvio Berlusconi after the discredited centre-right leader lost his majority. Monti said he intended to serve until the next scheduled election in 2013.
    Politicians have been suspected of wanting to topple the technocrat government, which many of them opposed, within months.
    But Berlusconi said on Friday he was ready to see it serve out the full term. He denied telling supporters he could "pull the plug" whenever he wished.
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