 The alliance was fixed and universal, extended both to the national government and to the local administrations.Considering that the election result did not longer depend by the strength of the DC, but by the strength of the entire "Pentapartito", centrist electors began to look at the Christian Democratic vote as not necessary to prevent a Communist success.More, voting for one of the four minor parties of the alliance was seen as a form of moderate protest against the government without giving advantages to the PCI.