Word: nenni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first ballot as candidate, and the 22nd of the election, Leone polled 503 votes, just one short of a majority. The candidate of the Marxists, Old Socialist Pietro Nenni, ran a poor second, with 408 votes. Next day, Leone finally made it with 518 votes-and without the support of the Communists, who had desperately wanted to be kingmakers. After a deadlock that left some Italians wondering whether their country was really ready for democracy, Italy at last had a President...
Exercise in Frustration. The latest crisis was precipitated by a split in Italy's fracture-prone Socialist Party. Until 1966 the Socialists functioned as two separate parties, Giuseppe Saragat's moderates and Pietro Nenni's leftists. They then closed ranks and served as one party in the center-left coalition. But last July they broke up again over the question of cooperating with the Communists in local governments. The moderates, who wanted to stay clear of the Communists, reconstituted themselves as the Social Democrats; Nenni's faction, figuring that the Communists had to be reckoned with...