Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity
Since 1961 the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (Partito Democratico Italiano di Unità Monarchica, PDIUM) was the continuation of the Italian Democratic Party (Partito Democratico Italiano), a monarchist party founded in 1959 by the union of the People's Monarchist Party and the National Monarchist Party.
The new party, like its predecessors, was hampered by a provision in the Italian Constitution of 1946 specifically forbidding any measure that would restore the monarchy. It was never able to repeat the results of its predecessors and saw electoral support for the monarchist cause shrink in the 1963 general election (1.8%) and in those of 1968 (1.3%), due to the successes of the Italian Liberal Party (respectively 7.0 and 5.8%).
In 1972 PDIUM merged in the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) and so ceased to exist. Alfredo Covelli, long-time monarchist leader, was elected president of MSI. In 1976 Covelli led a moderate split of MSI and established National Democracy.
Historical Italian political parties (current parties)
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Communist |
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Socialist and
social-democratic |
Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party, Italian Labour Party, Italian Socialist Party, Independent Socialist Party, Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Social Christian Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Unified Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, Democratic Party of the Left/ Democrats of the Left, Italian Socialists/ Italian Democratic Socialists
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Green |
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Social-liberal |
Radical Party (1877), Constitutional Democratic Party, Democratic Liberal Party, Reform Democratic Party, Italian Social Democratic Party, Italian Republican Party, Party of Italian Peasants, Action Party, Labour Democratic Party, Republican Democratic Concentration, Community Movement, Radical Party (1955), Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, Movement for Democracy – The Net, The Democrats, European Republicans Movement
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Centrist |
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Christian-democratic |
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Conservative-liberal |
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Conservative |
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Fascist and
post-fascist |
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Coalitions |
Leftist coalitions: Popular Democratic Front, Alliance of Progressives, The Left – The Rainbow
Centre-left coalitions: Socialist Unity, The Olive Tree, The Sunflower, The Union, Rose in the Fist
Centrist coalitions: Pact for Italy, Pact of Democrats
Centre-right coalitions: National Democratic Union, National Bloc, Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government, House of Freedoms
Rightist coalitions: National Bloc of Freedom
Neo-fascist coalitions: Social Alternative
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