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Article: This way to the egress. (Arnaldo Forlani elected in Italy)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 25, 1989
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This way to the egress
NOT even the cheers and fanfares of an Italian Christian Democratic party conference could disguise the bitter truth. The outcome of a battle for the party leadership was a clear defeat for the prime minister, Mr Ciriaco De Mita. Having lost the job he had held for the past seven years, Mr De Mita did his best to sound plucky in his closing speech on February 22nd. But it was a loser's pluckiness. The winners were the old party barons who arranged to overthrow him. They have promised to give their full support to his five-party coalition government, yet the prime minister knows he has been cut down to size, and his diminished authority is ...