Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity
| Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity | |
|---|---|
| 100px | |
| Secretary | Alfredo Covelli |
| President | Achille Lauro |
| Founded | April 11, 1959 |
| Dissolved | July 11, 1972 |
| Merger of | People's Monarchist Party, National Monarchist Party |
| Merged into | Italian Social Movement |
| Newspaper | Italia Monarchica |
| Membership (1961) | 50,000 |
| Ideology | National conservatism Liberal conservatism Monarchism[1] |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | No MEPs |
| Colours | Blue |
| Politics of Italy Political parties Elections |
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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
| Chamber of Deputies | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 536,948 (#7) | 1.75 |
8 / 630
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| 1968 | 414,507 (#8) | 1.30 |
6 / 630
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| Senate | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 689,708 (#7) | 2.51 |
3 / 315
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| 1968 | 605,051 (#7) | 2.58 |
2 / 315
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Notes
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