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Article: Italy Sets Elections For June 14; Christian Democrats' Maneuver Succeeds
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- April 29, 1987
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President Francesco Cossiga tonight dissolved Italy's parliament
and called national elections, to be held June 14, just four days
after a scheduled economic summit conference of leading industrial
nations at Venice.
Cossiga acted tonight after Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani's
11-day-old government succeeded in the task for which it was
constituted: losing a vote of confidence that allowed Cossiga to
order elections a year early.
Fanfani's government was defeated in the House of Deputies by 240
to 131 with 193 abstentions after a week of acrimonious debate over
whether the parliament, which was elected in 1983 for five years and
gave Italy almost four years of stable government, still ...