Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi asked on Wednesday for the upper house Senate to hold a confidence vote that will effectively decide if his coalition government stays in office.
The proposed motion says simply that the house approves of a speech made by Draghi earlier in the day, when he demanded unity from his coalition partners if they wanted the 18-month-old government to remain in power.
(Reporting by Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Keith Weir)
