Italian Radical Party
Italian Radical Party Partito Radicale Italiano | |
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Agreed Lists of Liberals, Democrats and Radicals (1919–1921) | |
Colours | Dark green[1] |
Part of Radicalism |
The Italian Radical Party (
political left in its beginning, with the rise of the Italian Socialist Party, it came to represent centre-left politics. The party was associated with classical radicalism,[2] republicanism, secularism, social liberalism, and anti-clericalism.[3]
History
Since 1877, the Radical Party was active as a loose parliamentary group grown out from the
Emilia and to the Republicans in Romagna but strengthened their position in Veneto, notably holding for almost twenty years the single-seat constituencies of Venice and Padua, which had also Radical mayors, and southern Italy, where they were previously virtually non-existent.[4]
In the
Democratic Liberal Party. The joint list gained 15.9% of the vote and 96 seats, doing particularly well in Piedmont and the South.[4]
After
left-wing elements of the old Radicals took part to the foundation of the Action Party in 1942, while a new Radical Party was launched in 1955 by the left-wing of the former Liberals. These new Radicals, whose longtime leader was Marco Pannella, claimed to be the ideological successors of the Historical Far Left, such as Agostino Bertani and Felice Cavallotti, and the Radicals.[5][6]
Electoral results
Chamber of Deputies | |||||
Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | Leader |
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1904 | 128,002 (4th) | 8.4 | 37 / 508
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1909 | 181,242 (3rd) | 9.9 | 48 / 508
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11
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1913 | 522,522 (3rd) | 10.4 | 62 / 508
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14
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1919 | 110.697 (7th) | 2.0 | 12 / 508
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50
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Leadership
- Secretary: Giovanni Amici (1904–1914), Mario Cevolotto (1919–1920), Gino Bandini (1920–1921), Ernesto Pietriboni (1921–1922)
References
- ^ "La campagna elettorale a Roma". La Stampa. 1 June 1914.
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- ISBN 9788849802948.
- ^ a b c Piergiorgio Corbetta; Maria Serena Piretti (2009). Atlante storico-elettorale d'Italia. Zanichelli: Bologna.
- ^ a b Massimo L. Salvadori (2000). Enciclopedia storica. Zanichelli: Bologna.
- ^ a b David Busato (1996). Il Partito Radicale in Italia da Mario Pannunzio a Marco Pannella.