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Article: Fanfani Asked to Form Government for Early Italian Vote
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- The Washington Post
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- April 16, 1987
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President Francesco Cossiga, discovering that it is as difficult
to dissolve the Italian parliament as it is to save it, turned to
former prime minister Amintore Fanfani today to try to end Italy's
43-day-old political crisis.
Cossiga asked Fanfani, the 79-year-old Senate president who has
led five of Italy's 45 postwar governments, to try to form a new
government after Interior Minister Oscar Luigi Scalfaro gave up his
efforts Monday night.
The object is no longer to form a government to rule the country,
but one that can quickly lose a vote of confidence, providing Cossiga
with the excuse he needs to dissolve the current four-year-old
parliament and call for new elections.
Scalfaro, ...