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...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...
...issues, at Williamsburg he should have comfort in numbers. Three of his fellow leaders - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone and West Germany's Kohl - share many of Reagan's economic and social philosophies. The others -Mitterrand, Trudeau and Italian Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani - lean more to the center and the left...
...billion amounts to fully 15.5% of the gross national product, and threatens if unchecked to push inflation, currently at 16.5%, to 21% during the year ahead while holding back growth to no more than about 1.5%. Even so, the newly formed coalition headed by Christian Democrat Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani is in no position to cut the budget deficit to the 11% of G.N.P. that most economists say is necessary, suggesting that Italy will remain mired in stagflation no matter what happens to other Community members during the year...