Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign is not without its ironies. Communist Leader Enrico Berlinguer talks up, of all things, law-and-order and private enterprise. The strongest Christian Democratic Speaker is Amintore Fanfani, 64, onetime Premier and currently Senate President, and the man who engineered the "opening to the left," an alliance with the Socialists a decade ago. He has taken to attacking youthful demonstrators and proclaiming "we must react," as if to show that he is not now afraid to be called a reactionary. Fanfani, and leaders of other Italian parties, are really reacting to the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano, whose call...
...latest leader-victim was Amintore Fanfani, the party's first candidate lor President and a former Premier (1954, 1958-59, 1960-63). The diminutive Fanfani was able to win only 393 of the Christian Democrats' 423 votes. These would need to be heavily supplemented by votes from other parties in order for him to win a majority of the 630 Deputies, 320 Senators and 58 regional representatives who constituted the electors. After the 19th futile ballot, Fanfani was unceremoniously dumped...
...some rightists and two of the strongest left-wing factions. No one doubted that Moro could have easily been elected, because he was acceptable to the 259 Communists as well as the 105 Socialists. But he was wholly unacceptable to other Christian Democratic factions, most notably the followers of Fanfani. Instead, the party settled on another former Premier: Leone. There was a measure of justice in the choice: Leone had lost in the 1964 presidential election largely because of Fanfani's opposition. At the time, he had complained that the balloting process was akin to "Chinese torture...
...apparent leader before the balloting began last week was Amintore Fanfani, 63, four times Premier and most recently president of the Senate. A short (he claims to be 5 ft. 6 in.), brusque, brash former economics professor, he is the candidate of the Christian Democrats, the largest party in the governing center-left coalition. Should he falter, former Premier Aldo Moro is more than willing to replace him. Moro, also a Christian Democrat, has visibly moved from the center toward the left of late, even as Fanfani was moving from left to center. Fanfani's other chief rival...
...three weeks, Rumor struggled unsuccessfully to strike a compromise that would satisfy all parties. He failed. Aldo Moro and Amintore Fanfani, two former Premiers and the current contenders to succeed Saragat as President of Italy, also gave it a try. Finally, Saragat persuaded Rumor to try once more, and this time the Cabinetmaker succeeded. It was not that the other parties liked his proposals. It was just that they feared the alternative-a costly general election three years ahead of schedule...