Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unroofed Hall. The Christian Democratic Party was both the villain and the victim of the messy election. Enabled to rule Italy only by joining in coalition with Pietro Nenni's Socialists, the Christian Democrats were determined to elect one of their own party President. Antonio Segni, who had resigned in December because of ill health, had shown that the office was not merely ornamental but could also be a position of influence and, on occasion, of real power...
...elect one of their own, the Christian Democrats had to 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...
...Christmas Day, the Christian Democratic Party finally faced the fact that it was unable to elect one of its members President. Nor could the party be brought around to backing its Socialist coalition partner, Pietro Nenni. What was 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 Such a man was Giuseppe Saragat, leader of the Social Democrats, who thought so little of his chances that he had withdrawn his candidacy as early as the seventh ballot.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...
Most Italians agree with Barzini that the best man won. Honest and tenacious, Saragat is both a poet and a visionary who dreams of a United Europe. But his more immediate concern will be the uniting of Italy itself. The presidential election showed once again the creaky nature of the nation's political system, with its multiplicity of parties. It also produces new strains in Premier Aldo Moro's ruling center-left coalition and among the Christian Democrats, who after 18½ years of ruling Italy, have become more a collection of factions than a coherent political party...
Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey was in San Juan, along with Senator William Fulbright, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. They were bidding goodbye to an old friend and welcoming a new one as the next Governor of Puerto Rico. Stepping down at last was Luis Muñoz Marin, 66, the island commonwealth's leader for the past 16 years. Into the Governor's La Fortaleza palace went Roberto Sánchez Vilella, 51, Muñoz' able Secretary of State (Vice Governor) and hand-picked successor who has worked faithfully for el maestro since...