Prodi mengundurkan diri pekan lalu, setelah sembilan bulan memerintah dengan kekalahan dalam kebijakan luar negeri di Senat setelah sebagian anggota parlemen sayap-kiri di dalam koalisi sembilan partainya memberi suara yang tak mendukung dia.
Prodi resigned last week after nine months in office over a foreign policy defeat in the Senate after some leftist members in his nine-party coalition voted against him.