When Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced that Italians had persuaded him not to resign, for much of Wednesday it looked as if his national unity government would survive.
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He called for a new pact and a vote of confidence in the Senate.
But hours later three parties in the coalition said they would not take part in the vote.
Now, after a year and a half, his broad-based government encompassing right and left is set to collapse.
After what the leader of the centre left called a day of madness, Mr Draghi won the vote but, deprived of the support of three parties, he is now likely to tender his resignation for the second time in a week. However, he is first due to attend Thursday's debate in the lower house of parliament.
Italy's political drama began last Thursday, when the 74-year-old ex-head of the European Central Bank handed his resignation to the president, because the populist Five Star movement had pulled out of a confidence vote on a multi-billion euro aid package for families and businesses.
President Sergio Mattarella rejected his resignation and six days later Mr Draghi told the Senate it was impossible to ignore public calls to stay in the job. He praised the public, unions, universities and industry as well as health workers and the world of sport for their "undeserved" appeals to carry on.
A completely new agreement was "the only way, if we want to stay together", he said, appealing for a strong, cohesive government. "Are the parties and you parliamentarians ready to rebuild this pact?"
