Italian general election, 1968
- PCI: 177
- PSIUP: 23
- PSU: 91
- PRI: 9
- Otherwise:. 3
- DC: 266
- PLI: 31
- PDIUM: 6
- MSI: 24
The parliamentary elections of 1968 were held on 19 April 1968. They were the sixth after the end of World War II and the introduction of universal male and female suffrage.
Since 1962 or 1963, the DC suggested under Aldo Moro a center-left coalition with the inclusion of the Socialists. In the government's responsibility latter beat now entirely a social democratic course a - as a result, they went an electoral alliance with the Social Democrats, with the left wing of the Socialists seceded under the name Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria ( Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian unit ) to select took.
The choice was also the time of the burgeoning student protests, the assumptions particularly strong forms in Italy. The Communists proved unable to integrate this protest potential and to bring to the labor movement in conjunction. The protests animated indirectly a new emerging legal terrorism, which caught on in the right wing of the MSI. It is now proven that the majority now following left-wing terrorist acts was controlled by the CIA in order to establish a repressive, anti-communist regime in Italy can ( modeled after the military dictatorship in Greece).