Angelino Alfano, Giulio Amato, Mario Monti and Gianni Letta, 4 leading candidates who have emerged as potential successors to Silvio Berlusconi for the position of Italy's PM
Silvio Berlusconi named Angelino Alfano, a 41-year-old former justice minister who became the leader of the ruling People of Freedom (PDL) party this year, as his replacement for elections and said there should be a vote in February 2012.
Italy's new technocrat prime minister, Mario Monti who enjoys 75 percent support according to opinion polls, comfortably won a vote of confidence in his new government in the Senate(upper house of parliament) on Thursday Nov 17,2011, by 281 votes to 25.
Italian PM Mario Monti's Cabinet won a 2nd confidence vote 556-61 for Monti's government in the lower house of parliament on Friday Nov 18,2011 to secure its right to tackle the country's deepening financial crisis.
Silvio Berlusconi named Angelino Alfano, a 41-year-old former justice minister who became the leader of the ruling People of Freedom (PDL) party this year, as his replacement for elections and said there should be a vote in February 2012.
Mario Monti asked to form new Italian government
Mario Monti (former EU commissioner) a 68-year-old technocrat considered the veritable "anti-Berlusconi" was named interim prime minister by President Giorgio Napolitano on sunday 13.11.2011 to pull Italy back from the brink of a full-blown debt crisis and effectively charging him with the task of bringing Italy’s bickering political parties together behind a new transitional government.Italian PM Mario Monti insisted that he intended to govern until elections in 2013
Mario Monti, Italy's New PM appointed a government without a single politician on Wednesday Nov 16,2011 which is made up of bankers, lawyers and university professors but not a single elected official Monti and his ministers were sworn in at a ceremony at the Quirinale Palace, a former papal residence that is now used by Italy's presidents, bringing a formal end to Mr Berlusconi's 3 year government. Mr Monti, nicknamed “Super Mario” for his intellect, diplomatic skills and 10-year record as a European competition commissioner, will as expected double up as both prime minister and economy minister.
Italy's new technocrat prime minister, Mario Monti who enjoys 75 percent support according to opinion polls, comfortably won a vote of confidence in his new government in the Senate(upper house of parliament) on Thursday Nov 17,2011, by 281 votes to 25.
Italian PM Mario Monti's Cabinet won a 2nd confidence vote 556-61 for Monti's government in the lower house of parliament on Friday Nov 18,2011 to secure its right to tackle the country's deepening financial crisis.
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