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...share of the vote by 5.1%, to 33.4%. The Christian Democrats, with every other party trying to wrench votes away from their centrist support, lost 309,843 votes. They were down 3.1%, to 35.3%, dangerously close to the 35% that represented an "alarm line" for Christian Democratic Boss Amintore Fanfani. All together, the Communists trailed the Christian Democrats by fewer than 600,000 votes. Their total vote, 10.1 million, was the largest ever cast for a Communist party in the West...
With all sides talking about the need for rinnovamento (renewal), the Christian Democrats admitted some shortcomings in a slogan of their own: "Thirty years of liberty-some good, some not so good-but all of them in liberty." Party Leader Fanfani made 200 campaign appearances, pledging his party's protection for "the Italian democratic system against ambushes of any sort." He regularly reviewed the ledger of Communist duplicity: "Twenty years ago in Hungary, seven years ago in Czechoslovakia, just three months ago in Portugal-a thousand promises on arrival, and then a totalitarian system...
Realistic Aims. Fanfani's predicament was that Berlinguer's disciplined, efficient Italian Communists have made a point of distancing themselves from the Soviet Union and from Portugal's Communist Party as well. Berlinguer, who has endorsed both NATO and the Common Market, has openly criticized Portuguese Party Leader Alvaro Cunhal for unwisely using old-line Stalinist tactics...
...vote from 9.8% to 12% (3.6 million), but had been hoping to do considerably better. The Christian Democrats must reform their party before the next national election; the job may be difficult since the party has its own right-center-left factions, which constantly disagree. Leftists last week demanded Fanfani's resignation as a cure. One reformation might be to give his job to a younger, less rigid man like Defense Minister Arnaldo Forlani, a centrist more palatable to the left...
...head of 38% of the voters. My function is to keep it united and if possible to increase its size. The Premier's function Is to govern Italy. In the party congress of 1973, it was said that there are only two thoroughbreds in the party, Moro and Fanfani, and that it was time that we decided to run together. That was when I called myself a Tuscan pony-un cavallino Toscano-and Moro a good southern horse. In any case we are in the same race and we are running together, from different positions but toward the same...