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Article: People power: Italy. (political reform)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 17, 1992
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REFORM is what the grand old men of Italy's Christian Democratic party have stood against for decades. The result of their stand is to convince many Italians that their country's political structure is rotten to the core. Those who want to do something about that got a rare boost on October 10th, when more than 12,000 people flocked to a political rally, more American than Italian in style, to hear Mario Segni, a pedigreed Christian Democratic member of parliament, launch his Popular Movement for Reform.
The rally confirmed Mr Segni's standing as the rising man of Italian politics, posing the toughest challenge to the old-guard Christian Democrats since the Communist ...