Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte won a confidence vote in the country's Senate, giving his new coalition government the green light to take office after weeks of political crisis, Reuters and Bloomberg News reported.
In a 169-133 vote, the upper house on Sept. 10 backed Conte and the new alliance between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, Reuters reported. Conte won a similar confidence vote in the lower house a day earlier.
The victory allows the new coalition government to start working on priority measures including the 2020 budget, which needs parliamentary approval by 2019-end, Bloomberg News said. The new coalition government has set out an expansionary budget for 2020 and pledged to cut taxes on labor and avoid a sales-tax hike.
The two parties joined forces late last month after League leader Matteo Salvini ditched the previous coalition with Five Star in a bid to force a snap election.
Conte is due to meet European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen and current President Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels on Sept. 11, along with other EU officials, the Bloomberg report said.
