Aldo Moro was Prime Minister of which European country?
Kidnapping of Aldo Moro Kidnapping of Aldo Moro The kidnapping of Aldo Moro (), also referred in Italy as Moro Case (), was a seminal event in Italian political history. On the morning of 16 March 1978, the day on which the new cabinet led by Giulio Andreotti was supposed to have undergone a confidence vote in the Italian Parliament, the car of Aldo Moro, former prime minister and then president of Christian Democracy (Italian: "Democrazia Cristiana", or DC, Italy's relative majority party at the time), was assaulted by a group of Red Brigades (Italian: "Brigate Rosse", or BR) terrorists in Via Fani in
Aldo Moro his more influent post at the head of the party: this fact confirmed the transformation of Italian political system into a particracy, the secretaries of the parties having become more powerful than the Parliament and the Government. However the Christian Democrats decided to replace incumbent Premier Amintore Fanfani with a provisional administration led by impartial Speaker of the House, Giovanni Leone; but, when the congress of the PSI in autumn authorized a full engagement of the party into the government, Leone resigned and Moro became the new Prime Minister. Aldo Moro's government was unevenly supported by the DC, but also