Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity

Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity

Secretary	Alfredo Covelli
President	Achille Lauro
Founded	April 11, 1959 (1959-04-11)
Dissolved	July 11, 1972 (1972-07-11)
Merger of	People's Monarchist Party, National Monarchist Party
Merged into	Italian Social Movement
Newspaper	Italia Monarchica
Membership (1961)	50,000
Ideology	Monarchism^[1] National conservatism Liberal conservatism
Political position	Right-wing
European affiliation	None
International affiliation	None
European Parliament group	No MEPs
Colours	Blue
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

The Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (Italian: Partito Democratico Italiano di Unità Monarchica, PDIUM) was an Italian political party of conservative and monarchist's goals.

History

Since 1961 the PDIUM called itself as continuation of the Italian Democratic Party (Partito Democratico Italiano). It was founded in 1959 by the union of the People's Monarchist Party and the National Monarchist Party.

The new party, like its predecessors, was hampered by provisions in the Italian Constitution of 1946 making it all but impossible to restore the monarchy. The document not only specifically forbade a referendum on changing the republican form of government, but (until 2002) barred male members of the House of Savoy from ever returning to Italy. It was never able to repeat the results of its predecessors and saw electoral support for the monarchist cause shrink in the 1963 general election (1.8%) and in those of 1968 (1.3%), due to the successes of the Italian Liberal Party (respectively 7.0 and 5.8%).

In 1972 PDIUM merged in the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI) and so ceased to exist. Alfredo Covelli, long-time monarchist leader, was elected president of MSI. In 1976 Covelli led a moderate split of MSI and established National Democracy.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
Chamber of Deputies
1963	536,948 (#7)	1.75	8 / 630	-	Alfredo Covelli
1968	414,507 (#8)	1.30	6 / 630	2	Alfredo Covelli

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
Senate
1963	689,708 (#7)	2.51	3 / 315	-	Alfredo Covelli
1968	605,051 (#7)	2.58	2 / 315	1	Alfredo Covelli

Notes

↑ Vittorio Gorresio (12 April 1959). "I monarchici si sono unificati fondando il "Partito Democratico Italiano"". La Stampa. p. 1.

Historical political parties in Italy

Communist

Communist Party of Italy Italian Communist Party Union of Italian Communists (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Unity Party Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Democracy Movement of Unitarian Communists Movement for the Left Unite the Left Critical Left Party of Italian Communists

Socialist and social-democratic

Green

Green Lists Rainbow Greens Federalist Greens

Social-liberal

Centrist

Populars for Reform Segni Pact Italian Democratic Movement Italian Renewal United Consumers Union for the Republic Pact of Liberal Democrats Southern Democratic Party Middle Italy

Christian-democratic

Conservative-liberal

Liberal Union Economic Party Democratic Union for the New Republic Italian Liberal Party Italian Unionist Movement National Democratic Alliance Liberal Democratic Foundation Liberal Democratic Pole Union of the Centre The Liberals-Sgarbi Forza Italia Liberal Reformers Italian Liberal Right Labour and Freedom List The People of Freedom Future and Freedom

Conservative

Conservative Catholics Combatants' Party Agrarian Party Common Man's Front Italian Democratic Party Monarchist National Party People's Monarchist Party Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity National Democracy National Alliance Movement for Italy I Love Italy

Fascist

Italian Nationalist Association National Fascist Party Republican Fascist Party Italian Social Movement National Front (1967) National Front (1990) National Front (1997) Social Action

Regionalist and Federalist

Slavs and Germans Federalists and Liberal Democrats Federalist Party Federalist Italian League Federal Italy Autonomists for Europe Force of the South

Coalitions of parties

Leftist coalitions	Popular Democratic Front Alliance of Progressives Together with the Union The Left – The Rainbow For the Common Good Anticapitalist and Communist List Federation of the Left Civil Revolution

Centre-left coalitions	Organic Centre-left Socialist Unity Pact of Democrats The Olive Tree The Sunflower United Socialists for Europe The Union Rose in the Fist Italy. Common Good

Centrist coalitions	Pentapartito Pact for Italy White Flower The Clover New Pole for Italy With Monti for Italy European Choice

Centre-right coalitions	National Democratic Union National Bloc Pole of Freedoms Pole of Good Government Pole for Freedoms Segni Pact – National Alliance House of Freedoms The Autonomy

Rightist coalitions	National Blocs National List National Bloc of Freedom Social Alternative The Right–Tricolour Flame

Politics of Italy
List of political parties in Italy
Current parties
19th-century parties

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, January 17, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.