ROME — Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte won the backing of the upper house of parliament on Tuesday, leaving him clinging to power but with a weakened, minority government.
Conte won a majority in a vote of confidence in the Senate, but fell short of an absolute majority.
After weeks of infighting, former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi triggered the vote, pulling his centrist Italia Viva party out of the governing coalition and plunging Italy into political chaos. Renzi blamed differences over the country’s post-coronavirus economic recovery plan.
Conte, who is not a member of a political party but leads a coalition of the anti-establishment 5Star Movement and the leftist Democratic Party, won the Senate vote by 156 to 140, after appealing to senators to ensure stability as the country struggles through an economic and health crisis. He needed 161 votes for an absolute majority. Most senators in Renzi’s Italia Viva abstained, which was critical for Conte’s survival.
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