The Senate and Italian Premier Matteo Renzi

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi: The vote in the Senate came hours after he argued that he could get his country back to work while the last three premiers failed, according to CTV. The Senate voted 169-139 to confirm Renzi's broad coalition, which ranges from his centre-left Democrats to centre-right forces formerly loyal to ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi. Renzi needed at least 155 votes to clinch the victory, one of two mandatory confidence votes and - Italian Premier Matteo Renzi won a crucial confidence vote in Parliament on his brand new government early Tuesday, managing at least for now to tamp down anger from among his own Democrats over his brash, quick rise to power. Renzi, at 39 Italy's youngest premier, was sworn into office on Saturday along with an unusually young Cabinet, with many of the ministers newcomers to national government. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.