Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano has survived a no-confidence vote in the Senate, triggered by a row over the deportation of a Kazakh dissident's family.
The row has threatened the stability of Italy's ruling coalition.
The opposition motion against Mr Alfano was defeated by 226 votes to 55.
There are suspicions that the extradition was carried out as a favour to oil-rich Kazakhstan, which has a poor human rights record.
Just before the vote Prime Minister Enrico Letta strongly defended Mr Alfano.
He told the Senate that the minister had not been involved in the expulsion of Alma Shalabayeva, wife of dissident banker Mukhtar Ablyazov, and their six-year-old daughter in May.
But Mr Letta acknowledged that the deportation meant "embarrassment and disrepute" for Italy.
Mr Alfano insists he was unaware of Kazakh diplomatic pressure over Mr Ablyazov's family. His chief of staff resigned over the affair this week.
Mr Letta urged senators to back the minister so the government could carry on its work of addressing Italy's economic problems.
"What I am asking you for is a new vote of confidence in the government which I have the honour to lead," he said.
Mr Letta heads a fragile coalition of centre-left and right-wing parties.
Mr Alfano is an ally of the former conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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