Craxi
Proper noun
Meaning
Craxi (plural Craxis)
A surname from Sicilian.
Examples
However, as a result of his spending policies, the Italian national debt skyrocketed during the Craxi era, soon passing 100% of the GDP.
In the 1980s, for the first time since 1945, two governments were led by non-Christian-Democrat premiers: one liberal ( Giovanni Spadolini ) and one socialist ( Bettino Craxi ); the Christian Democrats remained, however, the main government party.
Increasingly, many on the left began to see the communists as old and out of fashion, while Craxi and the socialists seemed to represent a new liberal-socialism.
Subsequently Bettino Craxi (leader of the rising PSI) reclaimed for himself the post of Prime Minister, again at the head of a Pentapartito government.