Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p A snap national general election was held in Italy on April 21, 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The Olive Tree coalition leader Romano Prodi won the election, narrowly defeating Silvio Berlusconi, who led the Pole for Freedoms coalition.For the election, the Lega Nord of Umberto Bossi ran alone, after having left the Berlusconi I Cabinet in 1994, causing a crisis who drove President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to appoint a technocratic cabinet led by Lamberto Dini, which in turn lost its Parliamentary support in 1995, forcing Scalfaro to dissolve the Italian Parliament. The Communist Refoundation Party, led by Fausto Bertinotti, instead made a pre-electoral alliance with The Olive Tree, presenting its own candidates, supported by Prodi's coalition, mainly in some safe leftist constituencies, in exchange for supporting Olive Tree candidates on the other ones, and ensuring external support for a Prodi government.. }
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- Italian_general_election,_1996 abstract "A snap national general election was held in Italy on April 21, 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The Olive Tree coalition leader Romano Prodi won the election, narrowly defeating Silvio Berlusconi, who led the Pole for Freedoms coalition.For the election, the Lega Nord of Umberto Bossi ran alone, after having left the Berlusconi I Cabinet in 1994, causing a crisis who drove President of Italy Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to appoint a technocratic cabinet led by Lamberto Dini, which in turn lost its Parliamentary support in 1995, forcing Scalfaro to dissolve the Italian Parliament. The Communist Refoundation Party, led by Fausto Bertinotti, instead made a pre-electoral alliance with The Olive Tree, presenting its own candidates, supported by Prodi's coalition, mainly in some safe leftist constituencies, in exchange for supporting Olive Tree candidates on the other ones, and ensuring external support for a Prodi government.".