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Article: Socialists foil bid to resolve Italy's crisis
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 12, 1986
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ROME Italian Socialists yesterday rejected veteran Christian
Democrat Giulio Andreotti, 67, as the man to build a new government,
just a day after President Francesco Cossiga had appointed him to
resolve the two-week government crisis.
The rejection, amid increasing hostility between the two main
center-left coalition parties, the Christian Democrats and
Socialists, preempts Andreotti's consultations, which were to begin
on Monday.
Announcing the decision after a meeting of the Socialist Party
executive, assistant general secretary Claudi Martelli said: "Our
rejection is not a rejection of Mr. Andreotti personally, but of the
manner in which he was offered the job."
Hostile conditions