Govt crisis in Italy again

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33251, 14 June 1973, Page 17

Govt crisis in Italy again

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s Italy was today j effective government ; r Leone prepared to sele t ter. i t| The thirty-fourth post-war -IGovemment, a coalition T which lasted 11 months and i was headed by Mr Giulio s i Andreotti, resigned yesterday r but will stay on as “care--11 taker,” until a new cabinet si is formed, 1 President Leone’s formal consultations with party -Ileaders will begin tomorrow iland will last at least a week; I he has postponed a State visit r>to France as a guest of President Georges Pompidou, r which was due to start on / June 25. / Today political parties are - expected to consult informally <|among themselves. I The outgoing coalition was 5 lan alliance of Christian I I Democrats, Social Democrats 5 1 and Liberals supported from -Ithe outside by the tiny but {influential Republican Party. i It was doomed when the I Republican Party last month

ROME, June 13. r once more without as President Giovanni ect a new Prime Minisr | withdrew its support but was i kept alive pending a congress

1 of the Christian Democrat ) Party, Italy’s biggest political / party, last week-end. The congress overwhelmt ingly decided to seek a return to the Centre-Left Govern--1 ment “formula” thus bringing f the Socialists back and exi eluding the Liberals. This ; “formula” dominated Italian t politics for 10 years until - January, 1372. , Reviving a Centre-Left coai lition is a daunting task for Mr Mariano Rumor, who is ; expected to be asked to form f itThe Socialists and Social l 5 Democrats, whose quarrels i helped break un the Centre--5 Left last year, differed mostly i on relations with the Comtjmunist Party, as the Socialists . j insisted on closer relations > i with it than the Social Demorcrats would accept.