The Italian general election of 1987 took place on 14 June 1987.
General elections were held in Italy on 14 June 1987, to select the Tenth Republican Parliament. This election marked the final inversion of the trend of the entire republican history of Italy: for the first time, the distance between the Christian Democrats and the Communists grew significantly instead of decreasing, and this fact was seen as the result of the deindustrialization of the country. The growth of the service sector of the economy, and the leadership of former PM Bettino Craxi, gave instead a new strength to the Socialists. A remarkable novelty was the rise of the new Green Lists, while a new party obtained its first two parliamentary seats: the Northern League.
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Christian Democracy was by far the largest party in Sardinia. The Sardinian Action Party had its best result in a general election, gaining two deputies and one senator.
Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic political party in Italy.
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia, and to the immediate south of the French island of Corsica.
The Sardinian Action Party is a regionalist, separatist political party in Sardinia. While being traditionally part of the Sardinian centre-left, this nationalist party has recently sided with the centre-right coalition and, more specifically, with the League.
