Italy's Prime Minister Enrico Letta gestures during a news conference at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels January 29, 2014.REUTERS/Laurent Dubrule
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a confidence vote on Tuesday which he had called to hurry a law through parliament aimed at reducing prison overcrowding.
The lower house voted 347 to 200 to back the government's decree, which must now be passed by the Senate to become law.
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