Word: montecitorio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term. Scelba declared the candidate should not be a Christian Democrat. The Liberals. Social Democrats and Scelba's own faction in the Christian Democrats were willing to support Einaudi. Fanfani was not. At an eleventh-hour meeting before the Deputies and Senators gathered in Rome's big Montecitorio Palace to vote, Fanfani imposed his compromise candidate: Cesare Merzagora, 56, president of the Senate. As the Christian Democrats filed into the chamber, they got a printed reminder from Boss Fanfani: "Party discipline requires you vote for Merzagora...
...contest was really all over. But the lions and jackals, not yet sated with crisis, would not be denied their sport. For the next two days the old Montecitorio Palace, which houses Parliament, was Rome's modern-day Colosseum and Amintore Fanfani its doomed Christian. Giuseppe Saragat, who held the power to install Fanfani and his democratic Cabinet by a thin margin, alibied that the Premier was trying to appear to be leftist, and yet was compromising with the Monarchists. "One cannot turn toward us and at the same time turn toward the right," said he in an emotional...
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