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- June
- Minority Christian Democratic government of Giovanni Leone sworn in on 25 June.
- December
- Christian Democratic-Socialist-Republican coalition with Mariano Rumor as Prime Minister sworn in on 13 December.
1969
- February
- Italian Communist Party 12th Congress maintains censure of Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia.
- March
- Communists included among delegates sent to session of European Communities parliament.
- July
- New split in Socialist Party, partly over attitude toward Communists, results in fall of Rumor government.
- August
- Minority Christian Democratic government formed under Rumor on 6 August, after efforts to reconstitute center-left government fail.
1970
- March
- Mariano Rumor becomes Prime Minister on 28 March and forms coalition government of Christian Democrats, Socialists, and Republicans.
- July
- Prime Minister Rumor resigns on 6 July.
- August
- Emilio Colombo becomes Prime Minister on 6 August and forms coalition government of Christian Democrats, Socialists, Social Democrats, and Republicans.
- November
- Italy recognizes the People's Republic of China.
1971
- October
- Parliament passes Mezzogiorno Development Bill, allotting funds for development of industry in the south.
- December
- Giovanni Leone, a moderate Christian Democrat, succeeds Giuseppe Saragat as President, after the longest presidential election in the history of the republic.
1972
- January
- Prime Minister Colombo resigns on 15 January after a split in the coalition government.
- February
- Giulio Andreotti becomes Prime Minister on 18 February and Christian Democrats form a caretaker government.
- April
- Transfer of national civil servants to regional level gives 15 ordinary regions a share of administrative authority.
- May
- Early parliamentary elections held for first time in the history of the postwar republic. The most notable change is an increase in support for the extreme right.
- June
- Centrist coalition government formed under Andreotti includes Christian Democrats, Social Democrats, and Liberals, with support in Parliament from Republicans. This coalition returned the Liberals to the government for the first time since 1957.
1973
- March
- Italy establishes relations with North Vietnam.
- June
- Christian Democrats in national party congress call for revival of center-left coalition; Andreotti resigns as Prime Minister on 12 June.
- July
- Mariano Rumor becomes Prime Minister for the fourth time on 8 July and forms center-left coalition government of Christian Democrats, Socialists, Social Democrats, and Republicans. Government issues emergency decree laws to combat inflation.
- August
- As a member of the Conference of the Committee on Disarmament, Italy participates in talks preparatory to the European Security Conference in Geneva.
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