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Whether Segni chooses Moro or sticks with Fanfani, the premiership will probably be no more than a caretaker's position for the next two months. For not until mid-July will Nenni's Socialists hold their annual convention and decide whether or not to stick with the Christian Democrats and keep the center-left alliance alive...
Only Solution. Red jubilance was matched by continued dissension in the Christian Democratic Party. Focus of blame for the party's 4% drop in votes is Premier Amintore Fanfani. Hardfisted Deputy Mario Scelba declared Red success "is the fruit of our mistakes and not of the superiority of Communist ideals." Scelba and others of the center and right strongly oppose a continuance of the apertura a sinistra, the so-called opening to the left, initiated last year by Fanfani when he formed his alliance with Pietro Nenni's Socialists. Trouble is, no other alliance seems feasible...
What seems less certain is that pint-sized, peppery Amintore Fanfani will survive as Premier. In accordance with Italian procedure, Fanfani last week handed his resignation to President Antonio Segni, who is expected to name a Premier-designate this week. If Fanfani is passed over, No. 1 candidate for the office will be the Christian Democrats' tall, unassuming Aldo Moro, 46, who became interim party leader in 1959 and has since emerged as party strongman...
Only a Caretaker. Moro is said to be reluctant to take on the job, and his lavish praise for Fanfani at the party's national council meeting last week suggested that he, for one, would press for little Amintore's continuance in office. In any case, he would not likely change Fanfani's policies, since he himself was one of the architects of the apertura a sinistra and forced party acceptance of the plan with a six-hour speech at last year's national congress of the Christian Democrats in Naples. But Moro is somewhat less...
...Liberals, who more than doubled their previous vote of 1,000,000; this was a spectacular gain, even if it amounted to only 7% of the total turnout. Most of the credit went to tireless Liberal Campaigner Giovanni Malagodi, 58, a banker turned politician, who hit out hard at Fanfani's schemes for more government planning and higher taxes...