People's Monarchist Party (Italy)

People's Monarchist Party
Partito Popolare Monarchico
Secretary Achille Lauro
Founded June 2, 1954
Dissolved March 7, 1959
Split from National Monarchist Party
Merged into Italian Democratic Party
Headquarters Naples, Italy
Ideology Conservatism
Monarchism
Populism
Political position Centre-right
International affiliation None
European affiliation None
Colours      Blue
Politics of Italy
Political parties
Elections

The People's Monarchist Party (Italian: Partito Monarchico Popolare, PMP) was an Italian conservative party founded in 1954 by a split from the National Monarchist Party. It was led by Achille Lauro, long-time Mayor of Naples. It first ran candidates in the 1958 election and won 14 chamber of deputies seats and 5 senate seats.[1]

In 1959, after this good result (2.6%, while the rival PNM scored only 2.2%), the party re-joined the National Monarchist Party to form the Italian Democratic Party, latterly named Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Chamber of Deputies
Election year # of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/– Leader
1958 776,919 (#7) 2.63
14 / 630
-
Achille Lauro
Senate
Election year # of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won		 +/– Leader
1958 774,242 (#7) 2.16
5 / 315
-
Achille Lauro

References

  1. ↑ Ram Mudambi; Pietro Navarra; Giuseppe Sobbrio (1 January 2001). Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 36–. ISBN 978-1-78195-082-1.