Word: nenni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself approved. He wanted to collapse his Cabinet in order to rebuild it on a new power base. He expects to continue his alliance with the Social Democrats and Republicans, but wants to get rid of the free-enterprising Liberals. In their place, he wants to work with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists (87 seats), thereby placing Italy within sight of the long-discussed apertura a sinistra (opening to the left). The maneuver may seem hazardous, but Fanfani has his reasons...
Amid prosperity, stubborn areas of economic depression continue, and Fanfani believes that more state action is necessary to erase them. His plans, opposed by the Liberal Party but warmly supported by Nenni's Socialists, call for heavy government investment in the poverty-stricken south, stepped-up construction of schools, roads, railways...
Political Change. Under Fanfani's plan, Nenni's Socialists would get no Cabinet seats. They would support the government in Parliament by backing measures they find agreeable, abstain on others. In the case of many needed reforms, cooperation would not be difficult, but conflict will almost certainly come over such issues as Nenni's demands for nationalization of the power industry, his neutralism in foreign policy...
...when his steamroller tactics lost him the support of his own Christian Democratic Party colleagues. Fanfani learned from the experience, came back last year wiser in the ways of cooperating and compromising. Today Fanfani has the parliamentary support of three other parties and the benign abstention of the powerful Nenni Socialists. Though the Communist Party polled one-third of the votes in last fall's election, the actual number of card-carrying Communists in Italy declined...
...Production was up 16% from last year, and wages were running 6.4% ahead. Despite the recurrent crises, Italy has an underlying stability. Though the Christian Democrats had made a prolonged spectacle of their inability to achieve a stable parliamentary majority, their opposition of the far left, the Communists and Nenni's Socialists, cannot achieve any kind of majority at all. Thus each government is and must be Christian Democratic, differing only slightly in detail and direction...