Rome  -  Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's newly elected centre-right government, won Wednesday the first of two scheduled confidence votes in parliament.

The result in the lower house Chamber of Deputies was 335 votes in favour and 275 votes against, with one abstention.

Berlusconi enjoys a comfortable majority following the centre- right's triumph in last month's election, and is also expected to win a confidence vote scheduled for Thursday in the upper house Senate. (dpa)