Historic Compromise

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The Historic Compromise (Italian: compromesso storico), also known as the Third Phase (Italian: terza fase) or the Democratic Alternative (Italian: alternativa democratica), was a historical political accommodation between Christian Democracy (DC) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the 1970s. The political accommodation was formalised between the two party leaders of the two parties, the PCI general secretary Enrico Berlinguer and the DC secretary Aldo Moro. Berlinguer envisioned it within the context of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, while Moro wanted Italy to change from a dominant-party system into one of political alternance like the other Western countries. Both parties saw the Historical Compromise within the context of an emergency period of the chaotic and crisis-afflicted 1970s, and the two governments under the agreement were known as the "government of non no-confidence" and the "government of national solidarity". The agreement also came when the PCI reached its political...

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