People's Monarchist Party (Italy)

People's Monarchist Party
Partito Popolare Monarchico
Secretary Achille Lauro
Founded June 2, 1954 (1954-06-02)
Dissolved March 7, 1959 (1959-03-07)
Split from National Monarchist Party
Merged into Italian Democratic Party
Headquarters Naples, Italy
Ideology Conservatism
Monarchism
Populism
Political position Centre-right
European affiliation None
International affiliation None
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 first ran candidates in the 1958 election and won 14 chamber of deputies seats and 5 senate seats.[1]

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

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Chamber of Deputies
Election year # of
overall votes
% of
overall vote
# of
overall seats won
+/– Leader
1958 776,919 (#7) 2.63
14 / 630
-
Achille Lauro
Senate
Election year # of
overall votes
% of
overall vote
# of
overall seats won
+/– Leader
1958 774,242 (#7) 2.16
5 / 315
-
Achille Lauro

References

  1. 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.
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