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...Forlani launches a Cabinet...
...outgoing Cabinet led by Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, which collapsed in September after losing a secret-ballot vote on its economic program. Everyone knew that the strike settlement was related to a four-party political deal that had spawned a new government headed by Christian Democratic Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani. Last week, drawing a comfortable majority of 52 in a parliamentary vote of confidence, Forlani was formally installed as head of Italy's 40th postwar Cabinet...
...coalition, with 27 Cabinet posts distributed according to a classic division of spoils: 14 for the dominant Christian Democrats (who won 38% of the vote in last year's election), seven for the Socialists (10%), and three each for the Social Democrats (4%) and Republicans (3%). Like Cossiga, Forlani, 54, is an affable, middle-of-the-road veteran of Rome's political wars, whose previous post was president of the Christian Democratic Party...
...then was Forlani being given a somewhat better chance of survival? For one thing, he appeared to have a broader base of support within his own party, having assigned three Cabinet seats to its mutinous left wing; some of its members had been suspected of having helped bring down Cossiga by voting against the government in the secret ballot. For another, Forlani had a strongly reinforced Socialist Party behind him, thanks to the aggressive leadership of its burly party secretary, Bettino Craxi, 46. Three weeks ago, Craxi unexpectedly announced an alliance with the Social Democrats and brought them into...
...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...