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...vote dropped 1.6%. In 93 smaller communities, their share of the vote declined 7% . In Rome itself, where they hoped to win a plurality, the party lost ground for the first time since 1948. The chief beneficiary of the losses (and of similar defections from the right wing): Premier Aldo Moro's Chris tian Democrats...
...member center-left coalition Cabinet put together by Christian Democratic Premier Aldo Moro was sworn in by President Giuseppe Saragat in Rome's Quirinale Palace last week. There was practically no difference between this Cabinet and the last, which fell 33 days before. Nonetheless, Italy applauded, and the Milan stock market surged to a new three-year high. Italians rightly understood that Premier Moro had triumphed over a positively Borgian plot...
...runner-up for the postwar endurance championship among Italian Prime Ministers, after the late Alcide de Gasperi, who resigned in 1953. However, Italian politicians, especially Christian Democrats, dislike strong leaders, and they will be doubly tempted to cut Moro down-just as they did De Gasperi. Observed one Roman: "Aldo Moro is the father of his party right now, but it's risky being Papa if your children have an Oedipus complex...
...fourth of the electorate, still vote Red in general elections-and the next elections might not be very far away if the nation's latest political crisis is not settled soon. Italy was without a government, thanks to the small Christian Democratic faction which voted down Premier Aldo Moro fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 28). And though President Giuseppe Saragat had asked Moro to reform his Cabinet, the days passed with no news of his success...
...Italian politics, Deputies who vote against their own party under the cover of a secret ballot are called snipers -i franchi tiratori. Last week, on an innocuous school-aid bill, the snipers struck. Near midnight, in an emptying chamber, they routed the Center-Left coalition government of Premier Aldo Moro by a vote of 250 to 221. Next day Moro submitted his resignation to President Giuseppe Saragat, who, after conferring with other Italian political leaders, is likely to invite Moro back to start all over again...