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Berlusconi wins first confidence vote (UPDATE)

Other News Materials 14 December 2010 14:29 (UTC +04:00)

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government on Tuesday won the first round of a parliament confidence vote retaining, as expected, its majority in the upper house Senate, DPA reported.

A confidence motion tabled by the centre-right government was approved with 162 votes for and 135 against.

However, a much closer race was expected in a later vote in the lower house Chamber of Deputies where a group of rebel conservative parliamentarians have indicated they will support a no-confidence motion tabled by the opposition.

Defeat in either house would force Berlusconi to resign.

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