Italy’s Monti Wins Confidence Vote on New Government Program
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Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti won a confidence vote in the Senate today after laying out a program to attack the euro-region’s second-biggest debt and spur growth in its third-largest economy.
The 321-seat Senate voted confidence in the Monti government by a margin of 281 to 25 after he presented the priorities of his new administration in a 40-minute speech to the upper house earlier today. He faces a final confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies in Rome tomorrow.