Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.134.23
Object Name
Poster
Title
il primo governo di centro sinistra
People
Pietro Nenni
Date
1991
Description
This poster is the 23rd in a collection of posters about Pietro Nenni, an Italian socialist politician who was also the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and a lifetime Senator since 1970. This poster is titled "The first centre left government" and features a large photograph of Nenni adressin a crowd. Text underneath reads: "On March 6, 1962, Nenni motivated the external support of the socialists to the new in the Chamber Fanfani government, formed on 22 February with the support of the PRI and the PSDI. A season seems to have come to fruition. Kennedy to the US presidency, Pope Roncalli to the Vatican, Moro to the DC secretariat. Nenni dreams of great things with the center left: a state that it is no longer 'weak with the strong and strong with the weak'. The first was established on 4 December 1963 center-left government chaired by Aldo Moro. Nenni assumes the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board, that keeps in the three successive Moro governments, from 1963 to 1968. But the entry into the government of the PSI causes a new split: the left wing, led by Lelio Basso and Tullio Vecchietti, detaches from the Party to found the PSIUP. As a comment, Nenni writes on Avanti !: "With the split, the left has found its epilogue in the formation of a party of cadres which can constitute a transitory element of confusion and disturbance, but which does not have the slightest political perspective". In December 1964, he was a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, but he retired to allow the election of Giuseppe Saragat which takes place on December 29th." (translated from Italian)
