But Mr. Napolitano has said he will not call new elections until changes are made to the election law, which is widely blamed for creating a thin, unstable majority no matter which side wins.
Many experts predicted that Mr. Berlusconi would win the lower house, but might have more difficulties in the Senate and as a result would face many of the same problems Mr. Prodi did with a thin, unstable majority once in power.
This is a tactic which can only be effective when the government has a small and unstable majority and is unable to use its "guillotine" to cut off further debate.
While this arrangement was originally intended to strengthen the executive against an unruly lower house with unstable majorities, the Fifth Republic has in fact developed a clear presidential majority system in the national assembly, making this rule now seem strangely incongruous, at least from a British perspective, yet it does not provoke discussion in France.
Or he could appoint an interim government of technocrats charged with reforming, among other things, the electoral law, which most experts agree creates thin, unstable majorities.
With 326 needed for a majority, that is an unstable outcome (the LibDem vote is evenly spread so translates into fewer seats in the first past the post system).Interestingly, the spread betting market does not reflect this split at all, showing 300-305 Conservative seats and just 223-228 for Labour.
The majority of the patients (70.3%) suffering from an unstable psychiatric disorder could have been referred for a psychiatric treatment.
"By promising tax cuts, and blaming welfare for rising tax burdens," she argues, "the right was able to build a popular, if unstable, electoral majority, and more importantly to shift the terms of the debate for the rest of the twentieth century".
The majority of SMN2 gene transcripts lack exon 7 and the resultant SMNΔ7 mRNA is translated into an unstable and non-functional protein.
This is an unstable situation.
This is an unstable identity.
