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Unroofed Hall. The Christian Democratic Party was both the villain and the victim of the messy election. Enabled to rule Italy only by joining in coalition with Pietro Nenni's Socialists, the Christian Democrats were determined to elect one of their own party President. Antonio Segni, who had resigned in December because of ill health, had shown that the office was not merely ornamental but could also be a position of influence and, on occasion, of real power...
...avoid just such a result, and to "isolate" the Communists, that former Premier Amintore Fanfani created the apertura a sinistra, or opening to the left, in 1962. Fanfani reasoned that by forming a coalition government between his Christian Democrats and the left-wing Socialists of Pietro Nenni, he would 1) rob the Communists of their strongest allies, and 2) give himself room to press for domestic reforms without foot-dragging by conservative parties...
...complicated maneuver, and it failed. It was Nenni's Socialists who were isolated, not the Communists. At the first national elections after the apertura, in 1963, the Communists gained a formidable million votes. Then it was argued that the coalition experiment had not yet had time to prove itself. By now it has been given plenty of time-and has accomplished little or nothing. In the municipal elections, all the tides were supposed to be running against the Reds: Italy's longtime Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti was dead; Khrushchev was out; and for the first time since...
...elections. They gained in central Italy, tightened their hold on the "Red belt" of Tuscany, Umbria and Emilia-Romagna, became the biggest party in Florence. The Christian Democrats were off more than 1% from last year, 3% from 1960, and lost 59 provincial council seats throughout the country. The Nenni Socialists slipped badly. Of the minor parties, only the conservative Liberals continued to grow. The party position for the past few years...
Christian Proletarian Unity Democrats Socialists 14.4 5.8 1960 14.2 6.3 1963 11.3 6.6 2.9 1964 Republicans Communists 40.4 4.0 5.9 1.3 38.3 7.0 5.0 1.3 5.0 1.2 37.4 7.9 Nenni Monarchists Socialists 24.3 2.9 1.7 25.6 26.0 0.9 Others Liberals 1.0 0.7 0.8 Social Democrats...