Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta addresses a news conference at the end of the G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland June 18, 2013. REUTERS/Kerim Okten/Pool
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won his first confidence vote in parliament on Friday, using the procedure to push through a series of measures including funding for regions hit by earthquakes last year.
Letta was never in danger of losing the vote and his grand coalition of traditional rivals from the centre-left and centre-right won by 383 votes to 154 in the lower house. The bill had already been passed in the Senate.
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