Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta looks on during a news conference with Russia's President Vladimir Putin (not pictured) in Trieste, November 26, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a confidence vote on the 2014 budget, reinforcing his coalition government a day before the Senate is expected to ban centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi from parliament over a tax fraud conviction.
Berlusconi's Forza Italia party voted against the so-called Stability Law, which it described as "completely mistaken, with neither head nor tail", formalising its break with Letta after seven months in his left-right coalition.
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