The Party of Democratic Reformers (Partito dei Riformatori Democratici, PRD) was a minor social-democratic political party in Italy.
It was founded in June 2007 by Renato D'Andria, leader of the left-wing faction within the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI), after his attempt to take over the party earlier in 2007 was declared illegal in April by a tribunal in Rome. [1] [2] In September 2008 D'Andria appealed to the Supreme Court of Cassation in order to be re-established as leader of PSDI. [3] [4] In July 2011 D'Andria was declared as the legitimate secretary of the PSDI, [5] thus ending the PRD's experience. D'Andria would lead the PSDI from 2011 to 2022.
An institutional referendum was held by universal suffrage in the Kingdom of Italy on 2 June 1946, a key event of contemporary Italian history. Until 1946, Italy was a kingdom ruled by the House of Savoy, reigning royal house since the unification of Italy in 1861 and previously rulers of the Kingdom of Sardinia. In 1922, the rise of Benito Mussolini and the creation of the Fascist regime in Italy, which eventually resulted in engaging the country in World War II alongside Nazi Germany, considerably weakened the role of the royal house.
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