and middle northern bourgeoisie.
It was primarily the split of the Leagues from the BerlusconsFini alliance that meant the cen. Rouge. tre could come through the Crucial too was the PRC's [Party of Communist Refoundation] policy of "desistance". While not joining the Olive Tree alliance, they did not oppose their candidates in first-past-thecent).
The victory is therefore very end to the social and economic forming a government. try for the last few years.
The Confindustria (Italian CBI are mounting a campaign to persuade the PRC to be more reasonable and looking to give the Northern Leagues more of a role The PRC vote increased from six per cent to nearly nine per cent. Its opposition to neoliberalstate, for social security. ism and Maastrict has been very successful. It made significant inroads into the voting base of the Budget will be the big test. PAULO FERRERO, a leader of the Party of Communist Refoundation and Turin councillor spoke to our French sister paper What is the PRC's response to the results? PF: The right-wing parties won a majority of the votes cast, from 45 per cent in 1994 to S5 per cent today. But because they are divided the left could gain a majoricy of seats. As for the PRC, our vote is rising—it increased by 800,000 votes (30 per Rouge: What role are you going to play in PF: We are going to allow the formation of a government, and vote for it, but we will not participate, and we do not support their programme.
We mide a pact to beat the right, to overthrow the last government. Now, we will see with each question. each piece of proposed legislation.
Most of all we want to construct a movement and win public opinion to the demands which we developed during the campaign, for the 35-hour working week, for the sliding-scale of salaries, for the defence of the welfare I think the problem is to maintain the parsy's auton. ory and its capacity to build a movement on our politics. to benefit from our position of relative strength. The