Word: fanfani
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...Cabinet of Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani was only ten days old when it fell last week. That made it one of the shortest lived of Italy's 46 postwar governments. The collapse left President Francesco Cossiga no choice but to dissolve Parliament, setting the stage for elections in June, a year ahead of schedule. Said the weekly L'Espresso: "We are on the eve of a real war of everybody against everybody...
...ambitious Craxi who provoked early elections by withdrawing from the four-party governing coalition headed by Christian Democrat Amintore Fanfani. Craxi had hoped that his Socialists would make significant gains at the polls. But they merely inched up, from 9.8% to 11.4%, far short of expectations. In the process, however, the election set off what Italian newspapers called a political "earthquake." The Christian Democrats suffered an unprecedented loss of more than 5%, dropping from 38% to 33% of the popular vote. What shook the political establishment even more was a wave of protest votes, estimated...
...lost votes went to the Socialists, whose share of the popular vote climbed by 1.6% to 11.4%. Still, that was not nearly the gain that Party Leader Bettino Craxi had hoped for when he provoked the elections, a year ahead of schedule, by pulling out of Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani's coalition government last April. Several small rightist and centrist parties also increased their share of the seats...
...cavalcade wound joyously through the historic center of Rome, past the Forum, around the Colosseum and into the Via Veneto. Along the route, scores of posters exhorted voters in national elections scheduled for June 26 and 27. A political rally? An outpouring of popular support for Premier Amintore Fanfani? Not exactly. The enthusiastic Romans were celebrating the return last week of Lazio, the area soccer team, to the first division. The elections drew yawns from the Lazio fans and from most of their countrymen as well...
Since World War II, Italy has had just eight national elections but 43 different governments, so many that they are now referred to in shorthand, with the name of the Prime Minister and Roman numerals: De Gasperi VIII, Moro III and, most recently, Fanfani V. Italy has a system in which the exercise of normal executive power regularly unravels coalitions, but in which each new government is a virtual clone of the last. "Most campaigns have issues," says Paolo Garimberti of the Turin-based daily La Stampa. "Here we have no issues at all. It's not a question...