Prime-minister-in-waiting Romano Prodi stumbled at his first parliamentary hurdle on Friday, when his center-left candidate failed to secure an absolute majority in a vote for the speaker of the Italian upper house Senate. The result on the opening day of the new parliament mean the Senate will have to hold a second and possibly even a third vote to decide who will take the prestigious position. At least one center-left senator, and probably more, refused to back their candidate in the secret vote, underlining the problems Prodi will face when he takes office — a fact leapt on by allies of center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi. "The countdown for early elections has started because as you can see, there is not majority here," said Paolo Guzzanti, a senator in Berlusconi's Forza Italia (Go Italy) party. ...
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