Party of Italian Peasants

Party of Italian Peasants Partito dei Contadini d'Italia

Former leaders	Urbano Prunotto, Alessandro Scotti
Founded	1920 (1920)
Dissolved	1963 (1963)
Newspaper	La Voce del Contadino
Membership (1924)	? (max)
Ideology	Social democracy, Christian socialism, Agrarianism
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The Party of Italian Peasants (Italian: Partito dei Contadini d'Italia) was a small Italian political party founded in 1920.

Starting from social democratic and christian social ideas, the party moved to an independent ideological position, with the sole goal to defend the small farmers against the great landowners. Its symbol was a ear between some grapes, and its newspaper was called La Voce del Contadino ('The Farmer's Voice'). The party, born in Piedmont, was never able to rise on a national plan, being limited to the Po Valley.

The party first contested the general election of 1921 and then the 1924 one, where it elected 4 deputies, before to be forcely disbanded by the fascism. After the war, it was re-built by Alessandro Scotti, which was elected deputy in 1946 and 1948. However, the Christian Democracy had strongly taken the representation of the agrarian interests, and the party was consequently marginalized. It survived only on local plan for many years, before to be finally disbanded in 1963, merging with the PRI.

Historical Italian political parties (current parties)

Communist	Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party, Organisation of Communists of Italy (Marxist-Leninists), Proletarian Unity Party, Proletarian Democracy, Movement of Unitarian Communists

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

Green	Green Lists, Rainbow Greens

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

Centrist	Patto Segni, Italian Renewal, United Consumers, Southern Democratic Party, Middle-of-the-Road Italy, Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy

Christian-democratic	Italian People's Party (1919), Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party (1994), Christian Democratic Centre, United Christian Democrats, Christian Democrats for the Republic, Democratic Union for the Republic, European Democracy

Conservative-liberal	Italian Liberal Party, Italian Unionist Movement, National Democratic Alliance, Union of the Centre, Forza Italia, Liberal Party

Conservative	Party of Combatants, Economic Party, Front of the Ordinary Man, Monarchist National Party, People's Monarchist Party, Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity, National Democracy, National Alliance

Fascist and post-fascist	National Fascist Party, Republican Fascist Party, Italian Social Movement, National Front, National Social Front, National Vanguard

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