Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's beleaguered centre-right coalition won a key vote in parliament this afternoon but failed to garner an absolute majority of 316 seats.
The vote on Italy's 2010 public accounts -- a precondition for the approval of any future budgets -- was approved by 308 votes in favour.
"The government no longer has a majority in this chamber," Pier Luigi Bersani, leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, said after the vote.
Addressing Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, he added: "Hand in your resignation."
Many Opposition MPs abstained in the vote.