Word: saragat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputies, or 26 short of a majority, have governed in parliamentary alliance with the mildly left-of-center Social Democrats (17 seats), the right-of-center Republicans (six seats), and the Liberals (18 seats), who more than any other Italian party are dedicated to free enterprise. Last week Giuseppe Saragat, leader of the Social Democrats, announced that by Jan. 27 he and the Republicans will pull out of the government majority, toppling the Fanfani Cabinet...
Known as Il Motorino (Little Motor), Fanfani has, in addition to his Christian Democrats, the pledged support of three center parties, the Saragat Socialists, Liberals, and Republicans, ensuring him a majority in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies without the help of the neoFascists. But any one of the supporting parties could clog up Il Motorino's gas line should he show any of the leftist economic notions or excessive Catholic zeal that have toppled his governments in the past. A major clause in the coalition agreement negotiated by Fanfani provides that if any one of the minority...
...Christian Democrats' own 272 votes, Fanfani planned to add the 17 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...