 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).