ROME (Reuters) - Italy's new prime minister Romano Prodi won the final seal of approval from parliament on Tuesday, allowing his centre-left government to get on with running a country whose public finances are spiralling out of control.
Prodi's victory in the lower house, where he enjoys a much bigger majority than in the Senate (upper house), had been expected. The chamber passed the confidence vote, the last step in the transition from Silvio Berlusconi's record five-year stint in power, with 344 "yes" and 268 "no" votes.
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