Word: nenni
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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...
...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...
...controlled by Social Democrat Leader Giuseppe Saragat, six Republican seats and three independent ones, for a bare one-vote majority. Since so slim a margin would offer his government no protection against secret desertions by members of his own party in parliamentary voting, Fanfani planned to rely on Pietro Nenni's Socialists to agree at least to abstain from voting against a Fanfani government. While some Italians saw this as the long-discussed "opening to the left," which would take the Christian Democrats down the road to more statism, Social-Democrat Leader Saragat himself argued otherwise. Confronted with...
...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...
...efforts to sell themselves as the sole alternative to Red ruin, the Christian Democrats wound up with only 34 of the 90 seats in the regional assembly-three fewer than they had before, and not enough to rule. The Communists (21) gained a seat; so did the Red-lining Nenni Socialists (11). But the biggest gains were made by Milazzo, who captured a pivotal nine seats...