Tiga puluh sembilan persen orang Italia menyatakan Prodi hanya akan memerintah selama beberapa bulan dan 22 persen memberi dia waktu 1 sampai 2 tahun, tapi bukan masa jabatan penuh lima tahun.
Thirty-nine percent said Prodi would last only a few months and 22 percent gave him 1 to 2 years but not a complete five-year term.