Italian general election, 1958

  • PCI: 140
  • PSI: 84
  • PSDI: 22
  • PRI: 6
  • Otherwise:. 5
  • DC: 273
  • PLI: 17
  • PMP: 14
  • PNM: 11
  • MSI: 24

The parliamentary elections of 1958, which took place on 25 May, were the fourth after the end of fascism in Italy and after the introduction of the same men and women suffrage. Over 32 million Italians were called upon to elect a new parliament.

Background

As the majority party DC consisted of very different correnti (German wing ), who had their regional strongholds, and its center majority (DC, PSDI, PLI, PRI) do not secure majorities possessed, ruled different views about which parties should be opened. Considered the right correnti a toleration of the or a government with the right-wing monarchists and fascists (which was supported by the CIA, which even a right-wing military dictatorship preconceived fear of an alleged Communist takeover in the eye ), was the Christian Socialist or Social-Liberal wings for an opening towards the socialists. Amintore Fanfani, who served in 1954 as Prime Minister sat on centro- sinistra ( center-left ), for which he also received the votes of centrist correnti way because we both wanted to pause the action alliance between socialists and communists and so the communists could isolate; but the later Prime Minister Aldo Moro pursued so even then the goal of integrating the Communists to (re - ). As a result of the XX. Congress of the CPSU, on the was a public accounting with Stalinism and the crushing of the Hungarian uprising followed the PSI under Pietro Nenni now a moderate course: Was the PSI so far been no less to the left than the PCI and differed from that essentially only the fact that he does not unconditionally the CPSU child, but quite sought a joint action front with the pro-Soviet left, the crisis in the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc for itself offered, like almost all other socialist / social democratic parties in Europe a reformist and pro - westerly course to drive. A collaboration with the PCI no longer took place. Even within the PCI, there was a crisis, as criticism of Soviet communism was loud and many intellectuals left the party. The party leadership responded with the announcement of a democratic " Italian road to socialism ", which can be regarded as a forerunner of the Euro -communism.

Follow

Experimented the DC to 1962 under Fernando Tambroni still with centro- destra ( center-right ), which after the scheduled congress of the MSI in June 1960 in the anti-fascist and "red" stronghold of Genoa and the related demonstrations (which successfully prevented to the party ) completed, she let herself thenceforth tolerate in a center-left coalition by the Socialists.

Results

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