SHARP SWING TO LEFT
SICILIAN ELECTIONS With threequarters of the estimated 2,000,000 votes cast in the Sicilian elections counted, the Communist-Socialist bloc has a big majority over the Christian Democrats who are followed by eight other parties and coalitions, says the Associated Press correspondent at Palermo. The Leftists seemed assured of 30 out of the 90 Assembly seats. The elections which all parties regarded as a preview for Italian national elections, probably in October, further showed Italy’s swing to the Left since the National Constituent As sembly elections in June 1946, when the Communists and Socialists polled a bare 20 per cent of the Sicilian votes against the Christian Democrats’ 33 per cent.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22313, 24 April 1947, Page 5
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