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| Berlusconi survives crucial confidence vote |
| 2010-12-15 |
| "Who is Silvio? What is he, that all our voters commend him? Holy fair and wise is he, Such grace did heaven lend him, That he might admirèd be." [Emirates 24/7] Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday scraped through a crucial confidence vote in parliament, overcoming one of the most serious crises in his 16-year political career. Berlusconi won with a razor-thin majority, as 314 politicians voted in his favour with 311 against and two abstentions in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies lower house. |
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