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Segni's chief rival for the job, which combines ceremonial functions with such real political leverage as the power to dissolve Parliament and veto legislation, was formally undeclared but well known just the same. He was fellow Christian Democrat Premier Amintore Fanfani, who had recently picked staunchly pro-Western Segni as Foreign Minister to balance his new center-left coalition, the much debated apertura a sinistra. Fanfani figured that by stubbornly clinging to about 40 votes that Segni needed to win, the deadlocked chamber would promote him to chief of state...
Hollow Boast. Fanfani's severe case of presidential fever was finally cured by six Cabinet members who threatened to quit if the Premier did not abandon his ambitions. Fanfani then released the 40-odd votes he controlled. As applause greeted the tally that clinched Segni's election, Fanfani stared sullenly into the television camera. Taking defeat more gracefully was Segni's closest open opponent, moderate Social Democrat Giuseppe Saragat, who, as a partner in the government coalition, may be named Foreign Minister to fill Segni's now vacant position...
...votes swung the election to moderate Leftist Giovanni Gronchi in 1955, Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti cried: "When it comes to choosing a President, we are the ones who choose." Last week, after the Reds backed Saragat in a futile maneuver aimed at pulling him farther left than Centrist Fanfani would be willing to go, the Communist boast had turned hollow...
...Segni has given away 250 acres of his own rich olive groves to landless peasants; in 1950, as Agriculture Minister, he sponsored a far-reaching system of national land reform. Politically, Segni is a moderate conservative who is not likely to stand in the way of reforms planned under Fanfani's opening to the left...
Unfortunately the conflict surrounding his election and the residue of ill-feeling it engendered endanger Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani's center-left coalition government, the much-publicized Christian Democratic "opening to the left." The coalition aims at sweeping and long-overdue political and economic reforms, but even with the qualified support of Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, it maintains a perilous existence...