After being appointed undersecretary for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in De Gasperi’s fifth government (May 1948 – January 1950), during the second legislature, between 1953 and May 1957 Moro was president of the DC group at the Chamber of Deputies and ex officio a member of the party national council.
During those years, Moro identified the political space for governing and developing democracy. On the one hand, De Gasperi’s plan must be adopted, that had turned DC into Italy’s biggest party and into the pivot of the country’s political development, thus avoiding the party to break down, an event that could challenge the democratic project itself; on the other hand, the aim was to ensure that such party – a mix of different social, political and cultural elements – could promote that popular trend, that “eye on the left”, which was one of its callings.
A strong supporter of the Western values, Moro gradually strengthened his position as centrism faced its crisis, that is, as DC gradually faced more and more problems in building lasting parliamentary majorities with the centre parties.
