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Article: Fanfani asked to mediate Italy's stalemate
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 5, 1986
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ROME Italian President Francesco Cossiga yesterday asked
Christian Democrat Amintore Fanfani, president of the Senate and a
former prime minister, to try to mediate a solution to the government
crisis that followed the fall of Italy's longest postwar
administration.
Cossiga's decision came after what sources described as a night
of stormy consultations with the resigned prime minister, Bettino
Craxi, and Ciriaco de Mita, leader of the Christian Democrats,
Italy's largest party. Craxi is leader of the Socialists, the second
largest party.
A statement from the president's office said Fanfani, 78, who
has served five terms as prime minister, had been given an
"exploratory" mandate to ...