People's Monarchist Party (Italy)

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People's Monarchist Party
Partito Monarchico Popolare
Secretary Achille Lauro
FoundedJune 2, 1954 (1954-06-02)
DissolvedMarch 7, 1959;64 years ago (1959-03-07)
Split from National Monarchist Party
Merged into Italian Democratic Party
Headquarters Naples, Italy
Ideology Monarchism [1]
Colours  Blue

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 took part in the 1958 election and won 14 seats to the Chamber of Deputies and 5 seats to the Senate. [2]

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

Election results

Chamber of Deputies

ElectionVotes%SeatsLeader
1958 776,919 (7th)2.63
14 / 630

Senate

ElectionVotes%SeatsLeader
1958 774,242 (7th)2.16
5 / 315

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