The new center-right government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi won a confidence vote in the Lower House Wednesday.
In the vote, 335 MPs were in favor, 275 were opposed, and one abstained.
A confidence debate is under way in the Senate which is scheduled to vote Thursday.
Berlusconi is expected to meet with the center-left opposition leader Walter Veltroni Friday. The two sides will discuss common ground for institutional, economic and political reforms.
Berlusconi went before the parliament Tuesday to seek confidence for his new center-right government. He spoke of the need to have dialogue with the opposition in order to achieve needed reforms.
In illustrating his government's program before the Lower House, a copy of which he later delivered to the Senate, Berlusconi said that Italy had "no time to lose" in adopting institutional and economic reforms.
He added that Italians had sent a clear message to its political class in last month's elections that they wanted both the government and the opposition "to do their jobs" in the interest of the nation.
Source:Xinhua
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