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...scene: poverty-stricken Sicily, which was electing a 90-member legislative assembly. There Reds scored even bigger gains in popular vote than in the municipal elections in Northern Italy two weeks before. The Communists, who rolled up a vote of 464,000 in 1948, gained 180,000. The Demo-Christians lost nearly 400,000. Because of Italy's new electoral law, which provides that any party with a plurality in a district automatically gets two-thirds of the seats for that district, the Demo-Christians managed to gain ten new seats. The new line-up in Sicily...
...Demo-Christians 30 seats, Communists 30, Neo-Fascist M.S.I. 12 (the Neo-Fascists had no seats in the last Parliament), Monarchists 9, minor parties...
...alarmingf factor: M.S.I.'s fast growth. In order to form a government in Sicily, the Demo-Christians will probably have to deal with the Monarchists and the Neo-Fascists, much as they dislike the prospect...
...Italy back on the road to recovery. By 1948, when Italians went to the polls to elect a new Parliament, the Red tide had been turned back; in that historic election, the Communists lost heavily to Italy's free parties, led by Premier Alcide de Gasperi's Demo-Christians. But the Communists still controlled the captured towns. Last week Italy was again holding municipal elections (beginning with North Italy, to be followed by the rest of the country later), and the anti-Communists had decided to storm the Red strongholds...
...town automatically gets two-thirds of the seats on the town council. This made it possible for the Communists to lose control of towns in which they actually chalked up limited popular vote gains. In 27 provincial capitals the Reds got 37%, as against 34.3% in 1948, while the Demo-Christians were down from 43.3% in 1948 to 36.5%. The anti-Red alliance (Republicans, Liberals, right-wing Socialists) picked up small gains; the neo-fascist M S.I. more than doubled its share of votes, from...