Date formed 21 October 1998 Total no. of ministers 25 | Head of government Massimo D'Alema | |
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Date dissolved 22 December 1999
(427 days) Head of state Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Member party Democrats of the Left (DS)
Italian People's Party (PPI)
Greens
Democratic Union (UD)
Party of Italian Communists (PdCI) | ||
The D'Alema I Cabinet was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 21 October 1998 to 22 December 1999.
Prodi I Cabinet fell in 1998 when the Communist Refoundation Party withdrew its support to Prodi. This led to the formation of a new government led by Massimo D'Alema as Prime Minister. There are those who claim that D'Alema deliberately engineered the collapse of the Prodi government to become Prime Minister himself. As the result of a vote of no confidence in Prodi's government, D'Alema's nomination was passed by a single vote. This was the first and so far, the only occasion in the history of the Italian republic on which a vote of no confidence had ever been called; the Republic's many previous governments had been brought down by a majority "no" vote on some crucially important piece of legislation (such as the budget).