Word: fanfani
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fanfani is asked to step...
...week acted quickly, foregoing the usual ritual of extensive political consultations. Within 48 hours, he had made up his mind. Summoned to the Quirinale Palace for a trumpet fanfare and the mandate to form Italy's 43rd postwar government was the Christian Democratic president of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani...
...political veteran, the stocky and pugnacious Fanfani received the call at a time when Italy's feuding parliamentary factions seemed hopelessly deadlocked. The collapse of the Spadolini government, which had a prime minister from the tiny Republican Party and was the first postwar administration not to be headed by a Christian Democrat, began while Spadolini was in the U.S. Back in Rome, two contentious Cabinet members began trading public insults, and with that, the Prime Minister's authority dissolved. Spadolini called for the resignation of the battling ministers. They balked; in the tradition of Italian coalition politics, Cabinet...