DHAKA: Italy`s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has won a vote of confidence in the lower house of parliament, backing his government`s programme of rapid economic and institutional reform.
Renzi, 39, won a comfortable margin in the Chamber of Deputies, with 378 MPs voting in favour to 220 against, reports BBC
He has promised to cut income tax, invest in jobs and abolish the Senate or upper house as a law-making body.
The new 16-member cabinet is the youngest in modern Italian history.
The outcome of the vote came as no surprise, with PM Renzi`s centre-left Democratic Party holding a strong majority in the lower house.
His government won a confidence vote earlier on Tuesday in the upper house, which was seen as a key test of his power in uniting warring factions in parliament.
BDST: 0920 HRS, FEB 26, 2014