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Prodi pierde la moción de confianza en el Senado y deberá dimitir






EFE. ROMA



El Senado italiano negó hoy el voto de confianza pedido por el presidente del Gobierno, Romano Prodi, por lo que se espera que en las próximas horas el líder de la coalición de centroizquierda "La Unión" presente su dimisión al Jefe del Estado.
Prodi, de 68 años, había pedido el voto de confianza tras la decisión del pequeño partido aliado democristiano UDEUR de abandonar "La Unión", que ha quedado en minoría en la Cámara Alta.



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Italien
Prodi verliert Vertrauensabstimmung im Senat

Der italienische Regierungschef Romano Prodi hat die Vertrauensfrage im Senat verloren. Damit muss er zurücktreten. Die Opposition feierte das Ergebnis der abstimmung Berichtenzufolge mit Champagner. Jetzt muss Italien mit Neuwahlen rechnen – doch auch eine andere Variante ist möglich.



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Italy’s Prodi to resign after losing vote

By Guy Dinmore in Rome
Published: January 24 2008 19:48 | Last updated: January 24 2008 19:48

Italy’s centre-left government fell on Thursday night after narrowly losing a tumultuous vote of confidence in the senate despite desperate attempts by Romano Prodi, prime minister, to prolong the life of his weakened coalition against the advice of allies.
Mr Prodi intended to submit his resignation immediately to President Giorgio Napolitano, a spokesman for the prime minister said. The president may seek the formation of a caretaker government or call early elections.
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Numbers were so close that up to the last moment it was not certain whether Mr Prodi’s fractious coalition would lose the vote, despite the defection of Udeur, a small Catholic party whose leadership is under investigation for corruption.
Chaos erupted when Nuccio Cusumano, one of three Udeur senators, broke ranks and declared his continued support for Mr Prodi. With others hurling insults, he collapsed in a faint and was stretchered out, the session suspended.
Italians watched proceedings on television in dismay, their anger at the establishment reflected in opinion polls showing little trust in the political classes. Nonetheless surveys indicate that Silvio Berlusconi, former prime minister and leader of the centre-right opposition, would comfortably win early elections.
In the end, not even the support of several unelected life senators could save Mr Prodi who was also deserted by the small Liberal Democratic party of Lamberto Dini, a former prime minister. The government lost by 161 votes to 156.
Looking exhausted after the drawn-out crisis, Mr Prodi said another change of government – his is the 61st post-war administration – was “a luxury Italy cannot afford”. Pointing to the global economic downturn, Mr Prodi argued that Italy needed continuity and that his government had put it on the road to recovery.
Some of Mr Prodi’s right-wing opponents could not disguise their gloating over his downfall after 20 difficult months in office. Others respected him for slogging it out to the end, having won a vote of confidence in the lower house on Wednesday.
But, in interviews, allied senators and government officials said his stubborn refusal to step down before the senate vote had exposed divisions within the coalition’s main Democratic party and possibly weakened it ahead of elections.
Walter Veltroni, mayor of Rome and Democratic party leader, had wanted Mr Prodi to resign early, giving the president more leeway to appoint an interim government with a mandate to reform the electoral system. Mr Veltroni had also angered Mr Prodi by saying the Democratic party would contest elections alone, rather than in a coalition.
Mr Berlusconi, media magnate and Italy’s wealthiest man, is insisting on holding early elections to exploit the disarray within the ruling coalition.



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Italian PM to resign



John Hooper in Rome
Thursday January 24, 2008
Guardian Unlimited


Romano Prodi speaks to journalists during a press in Rome. Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/AP



Romano Prodi's centre-left government collapsed tonight, clearing the way for Silvio Berlusconi to bid once more to govern Italy.
The members of the senate, the upper house of parliament, defeated a motion of confidence in the 20-month-old administration by 161 votes to 156 with one abstention.
President Giorgio Napolitano will now have to decide what to do next. He is thought to favour an interim government that would last perhaps only a few months and steer through a reform of the electoral law.


A member of Mr Berlusconi's inner circle told the Guardian: "Whatever happens, it's just a matter of time". He said the media mogul expected to be back in the prime minister's office by autumn at the latest.
The result was declared at the end of a tumultuous debate in which one senator was spat on and had to be carried from the chamber on a stretcher.
Another hobbled forward to cast his vote on crutches. He had been driven down from near Milan in an ambulance for the crucial ballot.
The Prodi government plunged into crisis on Monday when it was deserted by a tiny party whose leader, the former justice minister, left the cabinet on learning he was a suspect in a corruption probe. Other small groups and some individuals peeled off subsequently.
The odds against the government's survival had been stacking up relentlessly since before Christmas. The former EU Commission president's term of office has seen modest economic growth. But for many Italians its benefits have been offset by heavy taxation imposed to get the public finances within limits set by membership of the euro.
An announcement last month by the EU's statistical office that Spaniards were now earning more in real terms than Italians had a crushing effect on national morale. Days later, garbage began piling up on the streets of Naples - an all-too-tangible sign of political mismanagement and the still-pervasive influence on Italian society of organised crime.
The continuing rubbish emergency was the latest of several to which Mr Prodi's government has reacted sluggishly. According to the latest poll, carried out for the state-owned RAI broadcasting corporation, Mr Berlusconi and his right-wing allies enjoy a giant, 15 point lead.
The country now faces a period of paralysis as either a new coalition is formed or fresh elections held. In a final effort to attract support, Mr Prodi told the senate delay was "a luxury Italy cannot permit itself."
There was uproar during the debate that followed when Stefano Cusumano, a Sicilian lawmaker belonging to the party that prompted the crisis, announced he was remaining loyal to Mr Prodi after all. Proceedings were suspended after opposition lawmakers screamed "lump of shit", "cuckold" and "squalid pooftah". He was spat at, fainted and was carried out. The incident came amid a barrage of claims by Mr Berlusconi's followers that the government was "buying" votes with dubious favours.



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Italian Premier Loses Confidence Vote
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 24, 2008
Filed at 21 p.m. ET
ROME (AP) -- Italian Premier Romano Prodi lost a Senate confidence vote Thursday, obliging him to resign and bring an end to his 20-month-old government.
Prodi was widely expected to head soon to the Presidential Quirinal Palace to hand in his resignation. Early elections or asking a politician to try to form another government are among President Giorgio Napolitano's options as head of state.
The center-left government fell four votes short of the 160 needed for victory. The vote was 161 no to 156 yes with 318 voting and one abstention.
Prodi's government had been shaky from nearly the start after his election in April 2006, but it lurched toward its collapse Thursday after a small Christian Democrat party, whose votes were vital to a coalition majority in the Senate, yanked its support earlier this week in the latest squabbling among his allies.

[Pieffebi]

Mi hai anticipato, stavo preparando un 3d quasi identico.

Shalom

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Preparane uno con i titoli dei giornali sinistrati di domani!

[Conterio]

erano mesi che non dormivo così bene !!!

[Unastoria (POL)]

E' stata un gran gioia.
Il governo dei disastri, delle bugie, delle ingiustizie, delle intercettazioni, dell'indulto, delle droghe, dei clandestini, dei dico e dei pacs, dei censori papali, dei no tav no dalmolin no ponte no tutto è finalmente andato fuori dalle palle.

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E' stata un gran gioia.
Il governo dei disastri, delle bugie, delle ingiustizie, delle intercettazioni, dell'indulto, delle droghe, dei clandestini, dei dico e dei pacs, dei censori papali, dei no tav no dalmolin no ponte no tutto è finalmente andato fuori dalle palle.

Ho ringraziato la sen.Binetti perchè senza i teodem purtroppo i pacs e le altre scemenze ce le saremmo beccate tutte.