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With a panel of five ex-Premiers to decide among, the Christian Democrats rewarded the bustling "little professor" who had organized their victory: Party Secretary Amintore Fanfani, 50, a tireless Tuscan who has long pined for the job (TIME...
...party failed once again to win a majority. A curious sort of apathy, which could hardly be dismissed as electoral indifference when 94% of those eligible voted (compared to the 50% average turnout at major U.S. elections), hung over the campaign. Perhaps the reason showed in Party Boss Amintore Fanfani's tepid victory cry: "We can continue to guarantee progress without adventures...
Confidence. But while everyone in Italy knew of Amintore Fanfani's ambition, Fanfani himself never once mentioned it. He appealed to crowds to "Vote for the Christian Democrats." never asked them to "Vote for Fanfani." Despite his organizing talent, the quick mind of a man who was formerly a professor of economics at Milan's Catholic University, and his years of ministerial experience in postwar governments, Fanfani has more enemies than friends among his own party's leadership...
...unpalatable to conservative Christian Democrats. His all-out organizing methods antagonize the other democratic middle-road parties, whose support has been essential to Christian Democratic rule since 1953 (he lasted only twelve days in his one fling at the premiership four years ago). A recent poll showed that not Fanfani, the party leader, but former Premier and now Foreign Minister Giuseppe Pella is the most popular Christian Democrat in Italy...
Control. In an Italy prosperous and generally content, the Christian Democrats were expected to lead next week's election returns, but not even Fanfani foresees a majority that would allow his party to rule alone. Under new election laws, the Christian Democrats must win almost a million more votes than in 1953 just to hold the 261 seats they now have in the Chamber of Deputies. They are in the awkward position of asking Italians to vote for a party that does not yet know whom it will nominate for Premier. Adone Zoli, the present caretaker Premier, has indicated...