ITALY: PRIME MINISTER LAMBERTO DINI WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE AMIDST SCUFFLING IN PARLIAMENT
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ITALY: PRIME MINISTER LAMBERTO DINI WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE AMIDST SCUFFLING IN PARLIAMENT
- Title: ITALY: PRIME MINISTER LAMBERTO DINI WINS CONFIDENCE VOTE AMIDST SCUFFLING IN PARLIAMENT
- Date: 16th March 1995
- Summary: ROME, ITALY (MARCH 16, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV/CRANE DOWN TO EXTERIOR OF LOWER HOUSE. (2 SHOTS) 0.07 2. SV INTERIOR OF CHAMBER DURING CONFIDENCE DEBATE/SV PALIAMENT SECURITY WALKING INTO CHAMBER, TO SHOUTING AND UPROAR FROM DEPUTIES. (2 SHOTS) 0.13 3. SV RIGHT WING POLITICIAN MODESTO DELLA ROSA CONFRONTED BY SECURITY AND COLLEAGUES. 0.20 4. GV/ZOOM ROSA TRIES TO UNFURL BANNER, IS ESCORTED TO HIS SEAT ON RIGHT OF HOUSE. (2 SHOTS) 0.35 5. SV DEPUTY SPEAKER TRIES TO GAIN ORDER. 0.38 6. GV VIEW OF HOUSE. 0.41 7. SV FORMER PRIME MINSITER SILVIO BERLUSCONI SPEAKING DURING CONFIDENCE DEBATE (ITALIAN)/GV CHAMBER (3 SHOTS) 0.49 8. GV DEPUTIES CLAPPING 1.04 9. SV DEPUTY FROM THE LEFT WING, LUIGI BERLINGUER SPEAKING DURING DEBATE. 1.11 10. GV LEFT WINGERS CLAPPING. 1.16 11. LV BERLUSCONI LEAVES CHAMBER. 1.31 12. GV LOWER HOUSE AS DEPUTIES PREPARE TO VOTE (2 SHOTS) 1.36 13. GV/VARIOUS OF DEPUTIES INCLUDING BERLUSCONI WALKING THROUGH DIVISION TO VOTE. (7 SHOTS) 2.09 14. SV SPEAKER ANNOUNCING RESULT OF VOTE. 2.20 15. GV/PAN LEFT WING OF LOWER HOUSE APPLAUDING AND CHEERING RESULT. (2 SHOTS) 2.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
- Embargoed: 31st March 1995 13:00
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- Location: ROME, ITALY
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- Country: Italy
- Reuters ID: LVA742IB9YAAPQE14GR6GGMHI2KL
- Story Text: Italy's Prime Minister Lamberto Dini won a knife-edge confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies (lower house) by six votes on Thursday (March 16).
Dini had put his survival on the line in a bid to rescue his emergency budget.
Earlier, scuffles broke out in the Italian parliament as it met to decide whether Italy's government stood or fell in the vote.
Dini risked his two-month-old government's life to stop his crucial supplementary budget for 1995 from being wrecked by amendments introduced in the Chamber of Deputies.
His supporters burst into applause as Speaker Irene Pivetti announced that Dini had won by 315 to 309 with one abstention.
Defeat would have obliged Dini's two-month-old stopgap government of technocrats to resign and left President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro with little choice but to dissolve the sharply divided parliament and open the way to a snap general election.
Victory ensured amendments that threatened to wreck Dini's 20 trillion lire (12 billion United States dollar) mini-budget are swept aside.
The Chamber was expected to vote on the budget itself later on Thursday.
Dini's predecessor Silvio Berlusconi and his conservative Freedom Alliance voted "No" -- as expected -- in the knife-edge ballot.
Dini, who was treasury minister in the Berlusconi government that fell last December, had argued that defeat would have propelled Italy into an uncontrollable financial crisis.
The lira, beaten down against the mark by the political turmoil, hit a fresh record low of 1,228 to the mighty German currency shortly before the debate began but was quoted at 1,211 after the result on a day of nervous trading.
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