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Article: Choice of Italian sauces. (factions of the Christian Democratic Party) (Europe)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- June 17, 1989
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Choice of Italian sauces
THE factions of the Christian Democratic party are as fundamental to Italian politics as pasta is to Italian cuisine. Factions, like pasta dishes, change name and shape. And factions, like pasta again, have regional variants. But the substance remains the same. Despite their in-fighting, there have been Christian Democrats in every government for 44 years.
The first serious threat to their hegemony has come from the small but aggressive Socialist party, on the rise since Mr Bettino Craxi was elected its leader in 1976. That is why the Christian Democratic factionalists are frantically but so far unsuccessfully manoeuvring to ...