D'Alema I Cabinet

The D'Alema I Cabinet was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 21 October 1998 to 22 December 1999.

D'Alema I Cabinet
54th Cabinet of Italy
Date formed	21 October 1998 (1998-10-21)
Date dissolved	22 December 1999 (1999-12-22) (428 days)
People and organisations
Head of state	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Head of government	Massimo D'Alema
No. of ministers	26 (incl. Prime Minister)
Total no. of ministers	29 (incl. Prime Minister)
Member party	DS, PPI, UDR, RI, PdCI, FdV, SDI
Status in legislature	Centre-left coalition
Opposition party	FI, AN, LN, PRC, CCD
Opposition leader	Silvio Berlusconi
History
Legislature term(s)	XIII Legislature (1996 – 2001)
Predecessor	Prodi I Cabinet
Successor	D'Alema II Cabinet

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).