Editing Italian Republican Party (section)

=== ''Pentapartito'' age ===
[[File:Giovanni Spadolini 2.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Giovanni Spadolini]], first and sole [[Prime Minister of Italy]] from the party]]
In 1979, La Malfa received by President [[Sandro Pertini]] the mandate to form a new government. It was the first time for a non-DC member since the Italian Republic had been created. The attempt failed and a new government led by [[Giulio Andreotti]] was formed, with La Malfa as Deputy Prime Minister, but he suddenly died five days later. In September, the PRI chose [[Giovanni Spadolini]] as national secretary and [[Bruno Visentini]] as president. The following twelve years, first under Spadolini and then under La Malfa's son [[Giorgio La Malfa|Giorgio]], saw the PRI as a stable member of the so-called ''Pentapartito'', an alliance between the DC, the PSI, the PRI, the [[Italian Liberal Party]] (PLI) and the [[Italian Democratic Socialist Party]] (PSDI) which governed Italy from 1983 to 1991. The PRI abandoned the coalition in 1991 in disagreement with the Mammì bill (named after [[Oscar Mammì]], a Republican) on telecommunications.

In June 1981, Spadolini became [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (the first non-Christian Democrat to do so following 1945) and formed a five-party government, the [[Spadolini I Cabinet]]. Under Spadolini, an urgent decree outlawing all secret lodges, such as [[Propaganda Due]] (which included numerous members of previous governments and of military forces), was approved. The [[Spadolini II Cabinet]] fell in November 1983 due to a strife between [[Beniamino Andreatta]] (DC) and [[Rino Formica]], Ministers of the Treasury and Finances respectively.

At the [[1983 Italian general election]], the PRI gained its best result ever (5.1%) thanks to Spadolini's popularity after his stint as Prime Minister and became the third largest party after the DC and the PCI in several Italian cities, notably including [[Turin]]. Spadolini was [[Italian Minister of Defence|Minister of Defence]] from 1983 to 1987 under [[Bettino Craxi]] (PSI). Following the [[1987 Italian general election]], Spadolini was elected [[List of presidents of the Senate (Italy)|president of the Senate]] (an office he would retain until 1994) and was replaced by Giorgio La Malfa as party leader.