![]() Prodi at the 2007 G8 summit | |
Date | 16 January 2008 – 5 February 2008 |
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Location | Italy |
Type | Parliamentary crisis |
Cause | Withdrawal of UDEUR's support to Romano Prodi's government |
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On 24 January 2008, the Italian Senate voted down a motion of confidence in Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, causing the collapse of the second Prodi government.[1] Prodi's resignation led the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano to ask the president of the Senate, Franco Marini, to attempt to form a caretaker government. After Marini acknowledged an interim government could not be formed due to the lack of a clear majority in the Italian Parliament willing to support it, a snap election was scheduled for 13–14 April 2008.