Word: nenni
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...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...
Despite the drubbing his Socialist Party took at the polls three weeks ago, Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni saw no alternative to limping back into the Center Left coalition with the Christian Democrats for another five-year term. The party, however, had other ideas for regaining working-class support and recovering its voting losses. Overriding Nenni, Socialist delegates voted to stay out of the Center Left alliance until the Christian Democrats gave a firm commitment to carry out the leftist reforms in housing conditions, higher education and social welfare that they had promised-but not delivered-in the previous government...
...least partly of his own making. The former Social Democratic leader was reportedly so vexed with the poor electoral showing of his old party-now merged with the Socialists-that he actively backed dissident members who wanted to stay out of the coalition. Saragat apparently feels that Nenni made too many concessions to the Christian Democrats and is thus responsible for the Socialists' lack of success...
...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...