Word: nenni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...broad spectrum, from the so-called New Force on the far left and the Fanfanani (followers of former Premier Amintore Fanfani) to Rumor's own moderate rightists. The wildly fragmented Socialists picked up a total of nine ministries, including foreign affairs for veteran Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni, 77. The deputy premiership, too, went to a Socialist-Francesco de Martino, who is Nenni's subordinate in the party but has now become his superior in the government. Only the far-out leftists were unrepresented. The Republicans, third and smallest party in the coalition, picked up one ministry...
...minority government, temporizing until the Socialists could return to the fold. The Socialist pezzi grossi (big shots) expected to get support for the return at last month's party congress in Rome. "Here we are, five months after the election and in a worse position," declared Pietro Nenni, at 77 the party patriarch. But so badly divided was the party that in five days and nights, the only resolution it passed was for the removal of the word united from the party title, The United Socialist Party of Italy. Angered that the leadership was trying to steamroller them, leftist...
Unreliable Partners. Nenni decided that within the party executive, away from the noisy rank-and-file, he might win agreement to reopen negotiations with the Christian Democrats. But even there he came up with only 52% of the votes. With partners like that, the Christian Democrats asked, who needs an opposition...
...ever get his own party into line, Socialist Nenni hopes that he can persuade the Christian Democrats to accept reforms in divorce, education, welfare, housing, economic planning and labor. He also knows quite well that the Christian Democrats, who must live with their own strong right wing, are unlikely to vote all those reforms. But perhaps, he reasons, there finally are enough Christian Democratic leaders who are sufficiently disturbed by last summer's upheaval in France and the drift toward disillusionment in their own society to demand that after years of do-nothing government, the next one do something...
...than willing to step into the breach. Moro himself regards an alliance with the Communists as unthinkable, but more leftist Christian Democrats see it as a way out of the dilemma. Despite the Communist specter, the Socialists seem determined to hold out on the Christian Democrats, defying all of Nenni's pleas to cooperate. Explained Socialist Luigi Mariotti, Minister of Health in the outgoing Cabinet: "The Christian Democrats must be punished for the disgraceful way they have abused the policies we agreed...