Word: natta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high of 2 million in the mid-1970s to 1.65 million. . More telling, Bologna is the only large city that still has a Communist mayor. In 1976 there were five, including Rome and Naples. The chances of a party resurgence seem slim under the current leadership of Alessandro Natta, who is bland and unforceful...
...national retreat from the left. Perhaps the most significant reason for the Communists' defeat was the loss of the effetto Berlinguer, the sympathy vote for charismatic Communist Party Leader Enrico Berlinguer, who died shortly before the 1984 European Parliament elections. Today the party is led by Ales- sandro Natta, a colorless political veteran. Commentators surmised that the effetto Natta had hurt the party as much as the effetto Berlinguer had previously helped...
...Communist Party to its finest electoral hour: a first-place finish, ahead of the rival Christian Democrats in the voting for the European Parliament. Last week, as the party elders met to elect Berlinguer's successor as Secretary-General, they apparently saw wisdom in continuity: they chose Alessandro Natta, 66, a longtime Berlinguer loyalist...
Western Europe's biggest Communist party (1.7 million members) thus served notice that it would continue to hew to Berlinguer's "Eurocommunist" line, polishing its democratic image and keeping Moscow at arm's length. Natta has supported Berlinguer's advocacy of what is known as the "historic compromise," the idea of a coalition government between Communists and Christian Democrats. He is considered practical rather than creative, professorial rather than charismatic. In opting for Natta the party passed up a number of candidates with a popular following, each of whom would have given his own stamp...