Word: flavio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party now represents 27% of the national electorate but has never been a member of any coalition. "The Socialists want their wife in the government and their little girl friend in the opposition," sniffed Social Democrat Leader Flavio Orlandi. "If they insist on our blessing, we're not going to give it." The Socialists finally relented on that demand, and Premier Rumor ultimately obtained agreement on a vague statement promising increased unofficial consultation with the Communists...
...this would lead to a political cleavage of the country and damaging protests from the right. The neo-Fascists have been increasingly strident lately. They are generally blamed for a bomb blast at an anti-Fascist rally at Brescia three weeks ago that killed seven people. Said Social Democrat Flavio Orlandi last week: "Our economic crisis is worse than Britain's because in Britain, an authoritarian alternative does not exist. In Italy, an economic crisis on such a scale can become a crisis of the democratic system...