An institutional referendum was held in Italy on 2 June 1946,a key event of contemporary Italian history.
Adone Alvaro Ugo Natale Camillo Zoli was an Italian politician who served as the 35th prime minister of Italy from May 1957 to July 1958;he was the first senator to have ever held the office.
The Italian Republican Party is a political party in Italy established in 1895,which makes it the oldest political party still active in the country. The PRI identifies with 19th-century radicalism,as well as Mazzinianism,and its modern incarnation is associated with liberalism,social liberalism,and centrism. The PRI has old roots and a long history that began with a left-wing position,being the heir of the Historical Far Left and claiming descent from the political thought of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. With the rise of the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) to its left,it was associated with centre-left politics. The early PRI was also known for its anti-clerical,anti-monarchist,republican,and later anti-fascist stances. While maintaining the those traits,during the second half of the 20th century the party moved towards the centre on the left–right political spectrum,becoming increasingly economically liberal.
Mario Scelba was an Italian politician who served as the 33rd prime minister of Italy from February 1954 to July 1955. A founder of the Christian Democracy,Scelba was one of the longest-serving Minister of the Interior in the history of the republic,having served at the Viminale Palace in three distinct terms from 1947 to 1962. A fervent pro-Europeanist,he was also President of the European Parliament from March 1969 to March 1971.
Giuseppe Pella was an Italian Christian Democratic politician who served as the 31st prime minister of Italy from 1953 to 1954. He was also Minister of Treasury,Budget and of Foreign Affairs during the 1950s and early 1960s. Pella served as President of the European Parliament from 1954 to 1956 after the death of Alcide De Gasperi.
The Italian Liberal Party was a liberal and conservative political party in Italy.
The Italian Democratic Party was an Italian right-wing political party founded in 1944.
The Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity was an Italian political party of conservative and monarchist goals.
The Italian Liberal Party is a minor liberal political party in Italy,which considers itself to be the successor of the original Italian Liberal Party,the Italian main centre-right liberal party that was active in different capacities from 1922 to 1994. Originally named Liberal Party,the new PLI is not represented in the Italian Parliament.
Bruno Villabruna was an Italian lawyer and liberal politician.
The National Liberation Committee was a political umbrella organization and the main representative of the Italian resistance movement fighting against Nazi Germany’s forces during the German occupation of Italy in the aftermath of the armistice of Cassibile,while simultaneously fighting against Italian Fascists during the Italian Civil War. It was a multi-party entity,whose members were united by their anti-fascism. The CLN coordinated and directed the Italian resistance and was subdivided into the Central Committee for National Liberation (CCLN) based in Rome and the later National Liberation Committee for Northern Italy (CLNAI) based in Milan.
The Italian Democratic Socialist Party is a minor social-democratic political party in Italy established in 2004 as the continuation of the historical Italian Democratic Socialist Party,so that the new PSDI numbers its congresses in perfect continuity with the old PSDI. After being part of The Union in 2006,the party supported The People of Freedom (PdL) of the centre-right coalition in 2013,while in 2018 it supported Forza Italia,which succeeded the PdL.
National Action was a conservative political party in Italy.
Pietro Bucalossi was an Italian physician and politician. He is remembered for his cancer research,and for his austerity and small government policies while Mayor of Milan in the 1960s.
Leone Cattani was an Italian lawyer,politician and anti-Fascist activist.
Mario Pannunzio was an Italian journalist and politician. As a journalist he was the director in charge of the daily newspaper Risorgimento Liberale in the 1940s and of the weekly political magazine Il Mondo in the 1950s. As a politician he was a co-founder of the revived Italian Liberal Party in the 1940s and then of the Radical Party in 1955.
Alessandro Casati was an Italian academic,commentator and politician. He served as a senator between 1923 and 1924 and again between 1948 and 1953. He also held ministerial office,most recently as Minister of War for slightly more than twelve months during 1944/45,serving under "Presidente del Consiglio" Bonomi.
Paolo Vittorelli was the pseudonym used by Raffaello Battino,an Italian journalist-commentator,author and politician of the centre-left. As his public profile grew,he was increasingly referred to as Paolo Battino Vittorelli,the name by which he is identified in most posthumous sources. He engaged actively in antifascist propaganda work during the war years,most of which he spent exiled in Cairo.
The Social Democrats,officially Social Democracy,is a social-democratic political party in Italy founded on 2 July 2022. It considers itself to be the continuation of the historical Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI),founded by Giuseppe Saragat and other reformist socialists on 11 January 1947.
Marquis Falcone Lucifero was an Italian politician,who served as Minister of Agriculture and Forests of the Kingdom of Italy in the Badoglio I Cabinet,and Minister of the Royal House from 1944 to 1946. After the abolition of the monarchy in Italy he remained in the country as Umberto II’s official representative.
