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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in Italy's upper house to stay on in his position. Prodi, who last year won the closest election in Italy's post-war history, now faces a much easier test in the lower house, where he has a comfortable majority. However, a new published on Wednesday gave him little reason to celebrate, suggesting only four in 10 Italians want the centre-left leader to stay on. Most favor a non-partisan technical government or snap elections, according to the poll in the newspaper Corriere della Sera. Thirty-nine percent said Prodi would last only a couple of months and 22 percent gave him 1-2 years -- well short of a complete five-year term.
