ROME, June 5 -- The new Italian government led by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Tuesday won the confidence vote in Senate.
Nearly nine hours after debate started, Italy's Senate, the upper house of parliament, backed Conte's government by a vote of 171-117, mostly along party lines. A total of 25 senators abstained from voting. The outcome was widely expected.
Conte, a 53-year-old political novice, who was formally installed as the head of Italy's government on June 1, would have had to resign if he lost the vote.
Conte will face a similar confidence vote in the lower house of parliament, the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday. A positive outcome there is even more assured because of in that chamber the strength of the Five-Star Movement and the League, the two parties that support his government.
Conte addressed senators for more than an hour ahead of a full day of statements, the prime minister's first formal audience in the Senate. Conte thanked Italians for the chance to serve as prime minister.
He said he would take on the new job "with humility, with determination, with an awareness for (his) limits, but also with passion."
In remarks from senators from opposition parties, Conte was repeatedly criticized. Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, now a senator, called Conte's plan for government "unbalanced, "unrealistic," and "damaging." Emma Bonino, a former Italian minister of foreign affairs, said the current political situation represented a "low point" in her parliamentary career that started in 1976.
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