The World - News from Feb. 19, 1989
Italy’s dominant but fractious Christian Democrats appeared set to elect Arnaldo Forlani to succeed Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita as party leader at a five-day congress that opened this weekend. Forlani, a party centrist and a former prime minister, emerged as the only official candidate for what ranks as Italy’s most powerful political job after hectic bargaining among the party’s factional barons. Rival faction leaders have been pressing De Mita, 61, who was elected prime minister last April, to step down as party leader on grounds that holding both posts gives him too much power. Voting among 1,300 delegates will take place Wednesday.
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