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...austerity program designed to boost industrial production, reduce the balance of payments deficit and curb inflation. A renegade group of Christian Democrats broke party discipline and rejected a government proposal aimed at squeezing more tax revenues from the oil industry. Charging that the country was "ungovernable," Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi withdrew his party's seven ministers from the Cabinet. Given Craxi's barely concealed ambition to become Italy's first postwar Socialist Prime Minister, the crisis had all the earmarks of a Socialist power play...
...angry Socialists walked out of the five-party coalition to protest the rejection by Parliament of one of the four decrees in the austerity program. The measure, opposed by the oil industry, was designed to curb tax evasion by tightening up fiscal controls on refiners and distributors of petroleum products. It seemed a small matter on which to bring down a government, but the Socialists took the defeat symbolically because it was caused by about 30 Christian Democrat Deputies, the so-called franchi tiratori, or snipers, who, although ostensibly loyal to the government, voted secretly against the measure. "Under these...
...snipers had sabotaged legislation by the Spadolini coalition, but in the past, the defeated measures usually were soon rewritten and passed on a vote of confidence. This time Craxi seemed to be deliberately seeking to force new elections some time in the autumn in the hope of increasing the Socialists' 10% share of the national vote. Encouraged by healthy Socialist gains in recent local elections, Craxi has made no secret of his ambition to become Italy's first postwar Socialist Prime Minister...
Disclaimers aside, Suarez clearly hopes to play a pivotal role in the next Cortes. Currently, the Socialists hold 119 seats in the 350-member Chamber of Deputies, and they are expected to gain at least another 30 or so in the elections. That would put them within striking distance of the 176-seat majority needed to form a government. If the newly created Center Party musters enough seats to help make up the difference and put the Socialists into office, it could ward off a growing challenge from a right-wing coalition led by Popular Alliance Leader Manuel Fraga Iribarne...
...rule, and the lawyer who took up their case. In June, after the country's most prominent left-wing tribal leader, Oginga Odinga (a member of Kenya's second-largest tribe, the Luo), who is known as "Mr. Double O," reportedly threatened to form an opposition socialist party, Moi rammed through a constitutional amendment converting K.A.N.U.'s de facto one-party rule in Kenya to formal status...