Following two days of consultations, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano handed Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani a mandate to try to form a government, a month after inconclusive elections.
In the next few days Bersani, whose centre-left alliance has a majority in the House but not in the Senate, will need to muster enough support to form a government that can survive the required confidence votes in both houses of Parliament.
In the Feb. 24-25 election, the Democratic Party won a majority in the lower house though he fell short in the Senate where both Beppe Grillo’s Five Star movement and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition won blocking minorities.
Bersani Gets Mandate by Napolitano to Form the new Italian Government
Topic: Pier Luigi Bersani Mandate Napolitano
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