 After the Chilean coup of the same year, there was an approach between PCI and DC, that became a political alliance in 1976.In this time, the Berlinguer's PCI attempted to distance his party from the USSR, with the launch of the "Eurocommunism" along with the Spanish Communist Party and the French Communist Party.In July 1975, a Christian leftist, Benigno Zaccagnini, became the new Secretary of Christian Democracy.