People's Monarchist Party (Italy)

People's Monarchist Party
Partito Monarchico Popolare
SecretaryAchille Lauro
FoundedJune 2, 1954 (1954-06-02)
DissolvedMarch 7, 1959; 65 years ago (1959-03-07)
Split fromNational Monarchist Party
Merged intoItalian Democratic Party
HeadquartersNaples, Italy
IdeologyMonarchism[1]
Colours  Blue

The People's Monarchist Party (Italian: Partito Monarchico Popolare, PMP) was an Italian conservative party founded in 1954 by a split from the National Monarchist Party. It was led by Achille Lauro, long-time Mayor of Naples. It took part in the 1958 election and won 14 seats to the Chamber of Deputies and 5 seats to the Senate.[2]

In 1959, after this good result (2.6%, while the rival PNM scored just 2.2%), the party re-joined the National Monarchist Party to form the Italian Democratic Party, latterly named Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity.

  1. ^ Clark Carey, Jane; Carey, Andrew (June 1957). "The Varying Seasons of Italian Politics, 1956-57". Political Science Quarterly. 72 (2): 200–223. doi:10.2307/2145773. JSTOR 2145773.
  2. ^ Ram Mudambi; Pietro Navarra; Giuseppe Sobbrio (1 January 2001). Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 36–. ISBN 978-1-78195-082-1.