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...first popular test for Italy's new center-left coalition government, which grew out of Premier Amintore Fan-fani's apertura a sinistra (opening to the left) last February. In a heavy turnout, 3,000,000 voters cast ballots in municipal and provincial elections. Result: a sharp defeat for political extremism, both right and left...
...biggest gains were scored by the Liberals, a small party (membership: 190,000) with a right-of-center, free-enterprising program which had opposed the apertura a sinistra. The Liberals' strong showing suggested a distrust of the left, a belief that free-enterprise capitalism can do most for Italy's new and growing middle class. Despite this slight pull to the right, Premier Fanfanrs alliance had weathered its first test at the polls. His Christian Democrats' vote dipped a bit, but their coalition partners did well. As Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti complained, the elections reflected an unmistakable...
...power to dissolve Parliament and veto legislation, was formally undeclared but well known just the same. He was fellow Christian Democrat Premier Amintore Fanfani, who had recently picked staunchly pro-Western Segni as Foreign Minister to balance his new center-left coalition, the much debated apertura a sinistra. Fanfani figured that by stubbornly clinging to about 40 votes that Segni needed to win, the deadlocked chamber would promote him to chief of state...
After years of discussion, Italy's apertura a sinistra ("opening to the left") last week became a risky reality. In effect, the Christian Democratic Party shed some of its right-wing allies in parliament and went into partnership with Pietro Nenni's left-wing Socialists, who had long been working closely with the Communists. Chief architect of the experiment is shrewd, scholarly Premier Amintore Fanfani, who believes that only through the Nenni alliance can he muster the votes needed for necessary domestic reforms (TIME, Feb. 9). But many left-wingers predict gloomily that Nenni will become a hostage...
This week the party's central committee meets to cope with a fresh factional split brought on by the apertura a sinistra (opening to the left), the parliamentary alliance between Christian Democrats and left-wing Socialists (TIME, Feb. 9). One group of militant Communists fears that successful center-left cooperation would weaken the party by weaning away thousands of rank-and-file supporters, favors discrediting the alliance before it is launched (by demanding more radical reforms than the new coalition can support). A more moderate group, which includes Togliatti, argues: if you can't beat 'em, join...