SIMILAR TREND IN ITALY
ROME, November 12. All parties concede "a victory for the Communist-Socialist* Coalition in the Rome municipal elections. The figures, with districts,still to come in; are Communists and Socialists, 186,599 votes; Common Man Party, 105,741; Christian Democrats, 102,252; Mazzini Republicans,' . 39,938; Monarchists^'3s,676; Liberals (who may fuse with the Monarchists), 25,483. The final results from outside Rome showed that the northern industrial cities swung Left. Reuter’s correspondent says the Christian Democrats, fear an ever-increasing turn from the centre tp the. extremes. The Rightwingers, however, won Palermo, Sicily’s largest city. Signor De Gasperi said that his Christian Democrat Party was hit by abstentions, and also by the fact that many undecided, voters swung to the right and voted for the Common Man Party as a gesture of dissatisfaction against what they regarded as the Christian Democrats’ lack of policy in a .Coalition i Government*
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Evening Star, Issue 25948, 13 November 1946, Page 7
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145SIMILAR TREND IN ITALY Evening Star, Issue 25948, 13 November 1946, Page 7
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