Pentapartito

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Italian political coalition political alliance

Pentapartito was a dominant Italian political alliance of five centrist and center-left parties that governed Italy for much of the 1980s and early 1990s.

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Italian political coalition → political alliance →
aim	to provide stable centrist and centre-left governments in Italy →
coalitionType	governing coalition →
composedOf	Christian Democracy (Italy) → Italian Democratic Socialist Party → Italian Liberal Party → Italian Republican Party → Italian Socialist Party →
country	Italy →
dominantPeriod	1980s → early 1990s →
endTime	early 1990s →
governed	Italy →
governmentLevel	national →
historicalEra	Cold War → post–Cold War transition →
ideology	centre-left politics → centrism →
influencedBy	anti-communism in Italy →
languageOfName	Italian →
literalMeaning	five-party coalition →
notablePrimeMinistersAssociated	Arnaldo Forlani → Bettino Craxi → Ciriaco De Mita → Giovanni Goria → Giuliano Amato → Giulio Andreotti →
numberOfParties	5 →
opposedBy	Italian Communist Party → Italian Social Movement →
parliamentaryStatus	majority coalition →
politicalPosition	centre to centre-left →
politicalSpectrumCoverage	from moderate Christian democracy to social democracy →
politicalSystemContext	First Italian Republic →
reasonForDecline	collapse of traditional Italian parties in early 1990s → corruption scandals →
region	Western Europe →
significantEvent	Mani Pulite corruption investigations →
startTime	early 1980s →
status	defunct political alliance →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Italian Socialist Party →	coalitionParticipation