Italy’s Meloni easily wins confidence vote in parliament

On Wednesday, the new government will face a vote in the upper chamber, the Senate, where it also holds a solid majority

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)

Italy’s new far-right-led government of Giorgia Meloni has won the first of two required confidence votes in parliament by a comfortable margin.

The vote in the lower Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday night was 235 in favour of her coalition government and 154 against.