ITALY: PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE RUMOR BEGINS CONSULTATIONS ON NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT.

Record ID: 231140

  • Title: ITALY: PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE RUMOR BEGINS CONSULTATIONS ON NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT.
  • Date: 16th July 1969
  • Summary: ITALIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY DELEGATES ARRIVE FOR TALKS WITH SIGNOR RUMOR; TALKS IN PROGRESS. Initials PK/VS/DB/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 31st July 1969 13:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA9J3UZH9YJ5H6C7BZT5WA4IFK1
  • Story Text: SIGNOR MARIANO RUMOR, ITALY'S PRIME MINISTER DESIGNATE, HAS BEEN HOLDING CONSULTATIONS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN AN EFFORT TO FORM A NEW COALITION GOVERNMENT OUT OF FOUR FEUDING POLITICAL PARTIES. THE COUNTRY'S OLD GOVERNMENT RESIGNED II DAYS AGO, AND THE CARETAKER PRIME MINISTER'S TALKS COME AT A TIME OF MOUNTING ECONOMIC PROBLEMS AND SOCIAL UNREST.

    SIGNOR RUMOR SPOKE TODAY WITH LEADERS OF TWO OF THE FORMER COALITION MEMBERS -- HIS OWN CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE BIGGEST PARTY IN ITALY, AND THE SMALL REPUBLICAN PARTY.

    REPRESENTING THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS WERE THE NATIONAL PRESIDENT, SIGNOR BENIGNO ZACCAGHINI, THE SECRETARY, SIGNOR FLAMINIO PICCOLI, SIGNOR GIULIO ANDREOTTI AND SIGNOR GIUSEPPE CARON.

    THE 54-YEAR-OLD SIGNOR RUMOR, WHO IS NOTED FOR HIS SKILL AT CONCILIATION, AGREED TO TRY TO FORM A NEW GOVERNMENT TO REPLACE HIS PREVIOUS CABINET ONLY WITH RESERVATIONS.

    THE OLD GOVERNMENT RESIGNED AFTER A SPLIT IN ONE OF THE COALITION PARTNERS -- THE SOCIALIST PARTY.

    SIGNOR RUMOR WILL HOLD TALKS WITH LEADERS OF THE TWO NEW SOCIALISTS FACTIONS TOMORROW (THURSDAY), IN A FURTHER ATTEMPT TO GIVE THE COUNTRY A NEW AND STABLE GOVERNMENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
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