Word: ballotting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unite behind a single candidate. A party caucus gave the nod to Lawyer Giovanni Leone, but many Christian Democratic Deputies refused to be bound by the decision. Indeed, ex-Premier Amintore Fanfani finally captured more than 100 of the 399 Christian Democratic votes available but withdrew after the eleventh ballot because of the combined pressure of the Vatican and his party chiefs. Fanfani was feared because he is shrewd, inventive (he created the "opening to the left" regime that still rules Italy) and unpredictable...
Posthumous Appeal. Italian newspapers were suggesting that the strategy of Viterbo might be the only way out. Some Deputies showed their disgust by casting ballots for Movie Star Sophia Loren and an 88-year-old actress named Emma Gramatica. One man dropped his laundry list in the ballot box, another a letter from his wife, a third a job request from a constituent. One Deputy made a posthumous appeal to the late great Christian Democratic Premier Alcide de Gasperi by writing on his ballot: "De Gasperi, save Italy...
...obviously needed was a man of the left who was palatable to men of the center and the moderate right. Such a man was Giuseppe Saragat, leader of the Social Democrats, who thought so little of his chances that he had withdrawn his candidacy as early as the seventh ballot. Socialist Pietro Nenni saw the way clear to a reconciliation with Saragat by backing him for the presidency; he saw, too, a chance to bring back into the Socialist fold those Social Democrats who had followed Saragat out of the party...
Firm Foe. Yet even at this critical moment, many Christian Democratic Deputies refused to follow party orders and vote for Saragat. This opened the door to the Communists, who swung their votes behind Saragat on the 21st ballot. The Reds were well aware that Saragat is a firm foe of Communism and a friend of the West. It was enough for them to have denied the presidency to the Christian Democrats and to have given it to a Socialist...
...eager group of young Republicans supporting Ford plotted strategy in secret meetings, worked hard to round up votes. At week's end they thought they could count the 71 needed to elect Ford by secret ballot in a party caucus on Jan. 4. But they conceded that many of these votes were shaky-especially if Halleck fights all out to stay...