Italian Republican Party

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Italian Republican Party
Partito Repubblicano Italiano
AbbreviationPRI
Secretary
PresidentVacant
Founded21 April 1895; 126 years ago (1895-04-21)
HeadquartersVia Euclide Turba, 38
00186, Rome
NewspaperLa Voce Repubblicana
Youth wingRepublican Youth Federation
IdeologyCurrent:
Liberalism
Social liberalism
Historical:
Mazzinianism[1][2]
Anti-clericalism[3]
European affiliationNone[a]
European Parliament groupNo MEPs[a]
Colours  Green
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 630
Senate of the Republic
0 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73
Website
www.prinazionale.it
^ a: Member of the ELDR party from 1976 to 2010 and ELDR group from 1979 to 2004.

The Italian Republican Party (Italian: Partito Repubblicano Italiano, PRI) is a liberal[4][5][6] and social-liberal[7] political party in Italy. Founded in 1895, the PRI is the oldest political party still active in Italy.

The PRI has old roots and a long history that began with a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political thought of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi.[8] The early PRI was also known for its anti-clerical, anti-monarchist republican and later anti-fascist stances.[8][9] While maintaining the latter three traits, during the second half of the 20th century the party moved slowly to the centre of the political spectrum, becoming increasingly economically liberal.[10] As such, the PRI was a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) from 1976 to 2010.

After 1949 the party was a member of the pro-NATO alliance formed also by Christian Democrats, Democratic Socialists and Liberals, enabling it to participate in most governments of the 1950s. In 1963 the PRI helped bring together the Christian Democrats and the Italian Socialist Party. Although small in terms of voter support, it was an important opinion leader, as articulated by Giovanni Conti, Cipriano Facchinetti, Ugo La Malfa, Bruno Visentini and Giovanni Spadolini.[11] The latter served as Prime Minister of Italy in 1981–1982, the first not to hail from Christian Democracy since 1945.

History[]

Background and foundation[]

The PRI traces its origins from the time of Italian unification and more specifically to the democratic-republican wing represented by figures such as Giuseppe Mazzini, Carlo Cattaneo and Carlo Pisacane. They were against the so-called piemontesizzazione of Italy, meaning the conquest by war of the Kingdom of Sardinia (Piedmont) of the rest of Italy.

After the latter was unified under the Savoy kings, following the political lines of moderates such as Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Republicans remained aside from the political life of the new country, proclaiming their abstention from elections. They created several democratic movements, like the Brotherhood Pact of Workers' Societies, founded by Mazzini in 1871. However, Mazzini's death the following year and internationalism put the Republicans in a difficult position.

In the run-up of the 1880 general election, the Republicans chose to abandon abstentionism. At the time, their ranks included both members of the middle class, such as Giovanni Bovio, Arcangelo Ghisleri and Napoleone Colajanni, as well as the working class, such as . The PRI, whose power base was limited to Romagna, Umbria, Marche, the Tuscan littoral and Lazio, all but Tuscany former Papal States territories, was officially founded in 1895. By the end of the century, the party was allied with the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Radical Party in several local governments, including Milan, Florence and Rome.

Early 20th century and Fascism[]

At the outbreak of World War I, the PRI sided with interventionists, aiming at supporting France (considered the motherland of human rights) and annexing Trento and Trieste (then part of Austria-Hungary). After the end of the conflict, the party tried to form an alliance with other left-wing parties, but the attempt failed as the PSI at was strongly influenced by its "maximalist" (radical) wing. In 1921, Pietro Nenni left the PRI to become one of the leaders of the PSI. In the 1920s, the rise of the National Fascist Party (PNF) caused the collapse of all Italian left-wing parties, including the PRI, which was banned in 1926.

Several Republicans were arrested, confined or exiled and the PRI collaborated to the anti-fascist struggle. In 1927, the party joined Anti-fascist Concentration. In the late 1930s, it also participated in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940, the German occupation of France, where many Republicans had taken refuge, put the party in jeopardy. During the armed resistance against the German occupation of Italy from 1943, PRI members were part of the provincial National Liberation Committees (CLN), but they did not participate to the national CLN as they did not want to collaborate with Italian monarchists, some of whom were active members of the committee.

Post-World War II[]

Ugo La Malfa

In 1946, the PRI gained 4.4% of the popular vote in the election for a Constituent Assembly, confirming its traditional strongholds. However, it was very weak if compared to Christian Democracy (DC) and the Italian Communist Party (PCI). After that, a ballot on the same day abolished monarchy in Italy and the PRI declared itself available to take a role in the government of Italy, entering the second government of Alcide De Gasperi. In late 1946, Ugo La Malfa and Ferruccio Parri, formerly members of the Action Party (PdA), moved to the PRI. La Malfa would be appointed as minister in several of the following governments.

At the 19th congress of the party held in 1947, there were two main inner trends: one, represented by the national secretary Randolfo Pacciardi, supported an alliance with the PCI; the other, led by Giovanni Conti and Cipriano Facchinetti, considered the PCI the cause of the government's lack of efficiency. The latter was to prevail. Carlo Sforza, a Republican, was Minister of Foreign Affairs in De Gasperi's third government, although only as an independent. Sforza signed the treaty of peace and contributed to the entrance of Italy into the Marshall Plan, NATO and the Council of Europe. The exclusion of left-wing parties from the government in 1947 led the PRI to join De Gasperi's fourth government. Pacciardi refused to take a position as minister. As the PCI was ever closer to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Pacciardi later changed his mind and became Deputy Prime Minister.

The 1948 general election saw the PRI as a solid ally of the DC, but also a reduction of the party's share to 2.5%. In the following years, the strongest party faction was that of La Malfa, who refused to participate to the DC-led governments until 1962.

In 1963, the party voted in favour of the first centre-left government in Italy led by Aldo Moro. Pacciardi, who had voted against, was expelled and founded a separate movement, Democratic Union for the New Republic, whose electoral result were disappointing and whose members returned into the PRI's fold in 1968. La Malfa was elected national secretary in 1965. The alliance with the DC ended in 1974 when the Republicans left over disagreements on budgetary policy.

Pentapartito age[]

Giovanni Spadolini, first and sole Republican Prime Minister

In 1979, La Malfa received by President Sandro Pertini the mandate to form a new government. It was the first time for a non-DC member since the Italian Republic had been created. The attempt failed and a new government led by Giulio Andreotti was formed, with La Malfa as Deputy Prime Minister, but he suddenly died five days later. In September, the PRI chose Giovanni Spadolini as national secretary and Bruno Visentini as president. The following twelve years, first under Spadolini and then under La Malfa's son Giorgio, saw the PRI as a stable member of the so-called Pentapartito, an alliance between the DC, the PSI, the PRI, the Italian Liberal Party (PLI) and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) which governed Italy from 1983 to 1991. The PRI abandoned the coalition in 1991 in disagreement with the Mammì bill (named after Oscar Mammì, a Republican) on telecommunications.

In June 1981, Spadolini became Prime Minister of Italy (the first non-Christian Democrat to do so following 1945) and formed a five-party government. Under Spadolini, an urgent decree outlawing all secret lodges, such as Propaganda Due (which included numerous members of previous governments and of military forces), was approved. Spadolini's second government fell in November 1983 due to a strife between Beniamino Andreatta (DC) and Rino Formica, Ministers of the Treasury and Finances respectively.

At the 1983 general election, the PRI gained its best result ever (5.1%) thanks to Spadolini's popularity after his stint as Prime Minister and became the third largest party after the DC and the PCI in several Italian cities, notably including Turin. Spadolini was Minister of Defence from 1983 to 1987 under Bettino Craxi (PSI). Following the 1987 general election, Spadolini was elected president of the Senate (an office he would retain until 1994) and was replaced by Giorgio La Malfa as party leader.

Diaspora and re-organisation[]

Giorgio La Malfa

The early-1990s Tangentopoli scandals destroyed the party which fell under 1% of the vote, making it dependent on alliances with other parties to survive under the new electoral system based on plurality. In 1992–1994, the PRI lost most of its voters and members. The party was divided in three groups: one led by Giorgio La Malfa joined the Pact for Italy, a second one led by Luciana Sbarbati joined Democratic Alliance (AD) and a third group left the party and formed Republican Left (SR). At the 1994 general election, some PRI members including Sbarbati were elected to the Italian Parliament from the list of AD while Carla Mazzuca were the sole elected with the Segni Pact. At that time, the party seemed quite finished.[12]

Many Republicans, including Jas Gawronski, , , , Denis Verdini, and Mario Pescante, left the PRI in order to join Forza Italia. Others, mostly affiliated to SR, including Giorgio Bogi, , Giuseppe Ayala, and , approached with the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and finally merged into the Democrats of the Left (DS) in 1998. Others, notably including Enzo Bianco and Antonio Maccanico, joined Democratic Union (UD), The Democrats (Dem) and finally Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL). The party continued to exist under the leadership of La Malfa, who had been elected MEP for the ELDR Group at the 1994 European Parliament election and who worked hard to re-organise the party, welcoming back people such as Sbarbati who had left it in the wake of the 1994 general election.

From Prodi to Berlusconi[]

From 1996 to 2001, the PRI was part of The Olive Tree centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi. At the 1996 general election, the party elected two deputies (Giorgio La Malfa and Luciana Sbarbati) and two senators ( and Stelio De Carolis) thanks to the alliance with larger parties. Duva and De Carolis switched to the DS soon after the election, but during the legislature the PRI was joined by three more deputies elected with other parties: , (both former DS members) and Luigi Negri (a former member of Lega Nord and Forza Italia). The Republicans were very disappointed by the five years of government of the centre-left and soon became critical supporters of the Prodi I Cabinet as part of The Clover, a centrist parliamentary alliance with the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) and the Union for the Republic (UpR). The Clover was responsible for the fall of the D'Alema I Cabinet in December 1999.[13]

At the 2001 general election, the party formed an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms and got one deputy (Giorgio La Malfa) and one senator () elected. This led two left-wing groups to secede from the party: the European Republicans Movement (MRE), led by Luciana Sbarbati; and the Democratic Republicans, led by . The PRI took part to Berlusconi's governments and La Malfa was appointed Minister of European Affairs in the Berlusconi III Cabinet.

At the 2006 general election, Nucara and La Malfa were elected on the Forza Italia's lists for the Chamber of Deputies while the party decided to run under its own banner for the Senate in some regions, obtaining little more than 0.1% of the vote. Del Pennino was elected senator on Forza Italia's list.

At the 2008 general election, the PRI got two deputies elected in the list of The People of Freedom (PdL): La Malfa and Nucara. At time, the party had 12,000 members.[14]

Re-unification and recent events[]

The common battle in Parliament against electoral reform favoured a reconciliation between the MRE and the PRI. During the third congress of the MRE in February 2009, the two parties signed a joint declaration under which despite their different coalition allegiances, the two parties pledged to join forces in Parliament on some key issues such as civil liberties and freedom of research.[15][16] In October, a joint committee was installed in order to reach an agreement of re-unification between the two parties.[17] By February 2011, the PRI was joined by both the MRE and Ossorio's Democratic Republicans.[18][19]

Another split loomed when La Malfa voted against Berlusconi's fourth government and was suspended from the partyin December 2010.[20] Moreover, La Malfa along with Sbarbati (MRE) took part to the foundation of the New Pole for Italy (NPI) instead.[21] In May 2011 La Malfa was finally expelled from the party.[22] In June 2011, Del Pennino, who had been a PdL candidate in 2008, returned to the Senate after the death of a PdL senator.[23] In January 2012, Ossorio replaced a Democrat in the Chamber and joined the PRI sub-group.[24] In the 2013 general election, the PRI contested the election locally as a stand-alone list and obtained negligible results.

In December 2013, Nucara resigned from secretary after more than twelve years at the top.[25] He was replaced by two successive coordinators, (from March 2014, when Nucara was contextually elected president, to December 2015) and (from January 2016).[26]

In the 2014 European Parliament election, the PRI supported the European Choice electoral list, which won 0.7% of the vote and failed to elect any MEPs. In April 2016, the party joined forces with Act!, a splinter group from Lega Nord led by Flavio Tosi, whose sub-group in the Mixed Group of the Chamber of Deputies was named Act!–PRI.[27] After Enrico Costa's entry in August 2017, the sub-group was renamed Act!–PRI–Liberals.[28]

In the run-up of the 2018 general election, Saponaro was elected secretary[29][30] and an alliance with the Liberal Popular Alliance (ALA) was formed.[31][32] The PRI–ALA list, which was composed of only Republican candidates, presented its slates in one third of the constituencies and obtained 0.1% of the vote.

In 2019 Giorgio La Malfa was welcomed back into the party's fold[33][34] and the PRI was part of More Europe (+Eu) at the European Parliament election.

In 2020 the PRI formed a pact with Action (Az), a political party led by Carlo Calenda.[35]

In 2021 Carlo Cottarelli, a former director of the International Monetary Fund, was chosen by the PRI, Az, +Eu, the Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (ALI) and The Liberals to head of a scientific committee designed to elaborate of a joint political program.[36][37][38]

Popular support[]

Throughout the Kingdom of Italy, the Republicans along with the other party of the far left, the Radicals, were strong especially among the rural workers in Romagna, in the Marche and around Rome. In the 1890s, they suffered the competition with the Italian Socialist Party for the single-seat constituencies of Emilia-Romagna, where both parties had their heartlands. However, at the 1900 general election the PRI won 4.3% of the vote (7.3% in Lombardy, 9.6% in Emilia-Romagna, 15.0% in the Marche, 9.6% in Umbria and 7.2% in Apulia) and 29 seats from several regions of Italy, including also Veneto and Sicily, where they had some local strongholds. After that, the Republicans were reduced almost to their power base in Romagna and Northern Marche, where the party had more than 40% and where most of their deputies came from. That was why the party, which was little more than a regional party, lost many seats when proportional representation was introduced in 1919.[39]

At the 1946 general election, despite competition from the Action Party, which had a similar constituency and regional base, the PRI won 4.4% of the vote, with peaks in its traditional strongholds: around 21% in Romagna (32.5% in Forlì and 37.3% in Ravenna), 16.4% in the Marche (26.6% in Ancona and 32.9% in Jesi), 11.0% in Umbria and 15.2% in Lazio.[40] However, the PRI soon lost its character of mass party in those areas (although it retained some of its positions there) as the Italian Communist Party conquered most of formerly Republican workers' votes and the party settled around 1–2% at the national level in the 1950s and 1960s.[41]

In the 1970s, under the leadership of Giovanni Spadolini the Republicans gained support among educated middle-class voters, losing some ground in their traditional strongholds, but also increasing their share of vote somewhere else, notably in Piedmont, Lombardy and Liguria, where they became a strong competitor to the Italian Liberal Party for a constituency composed of entrepreneurs and professionals. This resulted in a recovery of the party, which had its highest peak at the 1983 general election. After that, Spadolini had been Prime Minister of Italy for barely two years and the party enjoyed a bounce which led it to the 5.1% of the vote. This time, the PRI did fairly better in Piedmont (7.7%, 10.3% in Turin and 12.8% in Cuneo) and Lombardy (6.9%, 12.3% in Milan) that in Emilia-Romagna (5.1%) and the Marche (4.7%) on the whole. The party did very well in its local strongholds such as the Province of Forlì-Cesena (11.3%) and the Province of Ravenna (13.9%).[39][41]

At the 1992 general election, the last before the Tangentopoli scandals, the PRI won 4.4% of the vote (+0.7% from 1987) and increased its share of vote in the South.[41] With the end of the First Republic, the party was severely diminished in term of votes and retreated to its traditional strongholds and in the South. After that, most Republicans from the Marche left the party to join the European Republicans Movement in 2001 and most Republicans from Campania switched to the Democratic Republicans. The PRI was left only with Romagna (where the local party is affiliated to the centre-left) and its new heartlands in Calabria and Sicily.

At the 2004 European Parliament election, the party formed a joint list with the new Italian Liberal Party and won 3.8% of the vote in Calabria,[42] 1.0% in Sicily and 1.0% in Apulia. In 2008, the PRI gained a surprising 9.4% in the provincial election of Messina, Sicily.[43] In Romagna, where it always retained its alliance with the centre-left, the party won the 4.2% of the vote in the provincial election of Forlì-Cesena in 2004[44] and 3.8% in Ravenna in 2006;[45] and 6.1% in the Ravenna municipal election.[46] In the 2011 local elections, the party was almost stable in Ravenna and its province (5.1% and 3.1%, respectively) and in Reggio Calabria and its province (3.1% and 4.1%), but it gained some ground in Naples (1.5%).[47] In the 2012 municipal elections, the party won 6.5% in Brindisi.[48] In 2016, the party won 4.4% in Ravenna.[49]

The electoral results of the PRI in general elections (Chamber of Deputies) from 1897 to 1992 are shown in the chart below.

  • Kingdom of Italy
  • Italian Republic

Electoral results[]

Italian Parliament[]

Chamber of Deputies
Election year Votes % Seats +/− Leader
1897 60,833[a] (4th) 5.0
25 / 508
–
Giovanni Bovio
1900 79,127 (5th) 6.2
29 / 508
Increase 4
Napoleone Colajanni
1904 75,225 (5th) 4.9
24 / 508
Decrease 5
Napoleone Colajanni
1909 81,461 (5th) 4.4
23 / 508
Decrease 1
Napoleone Colajanni
1913 102,102 (7th) 2.0
8 / 508
Decrease 15
Napoleone Colajanni
1919 53,197 (10th) 0.9
9 / 508
Increase 1
Salvatore Barzilai
1921 124,924 (8th) 1.9
6 / 535
Decrease 3
Eugenio Chiesa
1924 133,714 (9th) 1.9
7 / 535
Increase 1
Eugenio Chiesa
1929 Banned
–
0 / 535
Decrease 7
–
1934 Banned
–
0 / 535
–
–
1946 1,003,007 (6th) 4.4
23 / 556
Increase 23
Randolfo Pacciardi
1948 651,875 (6th) 2.5
9 / 574
Decrease 14
Randolfo Pacciardi
1953 438,149 (8th) 1.6
5 / 590
Decrease 4
Oronzo Reale
1958 405,782 (9th) 1.4
6 / 596
Increase 1
Oronzo Reale
1963 420,213 (8th) 1.4
6 / 630
–
Oronzo Reale
1968 626,533 (7th) 2.0
9 / 630
Increase 3
Ugo La Malfa
1972 954,357 (7th) 2.9
15 / 630
Increase 6
Ugo La Malfa
1976 1,135,546 (6th) 3.1
14 / 630
Decrease 1
Giovanni Spadolini
1979 1,110,209 (7th) 3.0
16 / 630
Increase 2
Giovanni Spadolini
1983 1,874,512 (5th) 5.1
29 / 630
Increase 13
Giovanni Spadolini
1987 1,428,663 (5th) 3.7
21 / 630
Decrease 8
Giorgio La Malfa
1992 1,722,465 (7th) 4.4
27 / 630
Increase 6
Giorgio La Malfa
1994 Into Segni Pact –
1 / 630
Decrease 26
Giorgio La Malfa
1996 Into the Populars –
2 / 630
Increase 1
Giorgio La Malfa
2001 Into Forza Italia –
1 / 630
Decrease 1
Giorgio La Malfa
2006 Into Forza Italia –
2 / 630
Increase 1
Francesco Nucara
2008 Into PdL –
2 / 630
–
Francesco Nucara
2013 7,143 (21st) 0.02
0 / 630
Decrease 2
Francesco Nucara
2018 20,943 (20th)[b] 0.06
0 / 630
–
  1. ^ Estimate.
  2. ^ In a joint list with Liberal Popular Alliance.
Senate of the Republic
Election year Votes % Seats +/− Leader
1948 594,178[a] (6th) 2.6
6 / 237
–
Randolfo Pacciardi
1953 261,713 (8th) 1.1
0 / 237
Decrease 6
Oronzo Reale
1958 363,462 (9th) 1.4
0 / 246
–
Oronzo Reale
1963 223,350 (8th) 0.8
1 / 315
–
Oronzo Reale
1968 622,388 (7th) 2.2
2 / 315
Increase 2
Ugo La Malfa
1972 918,440 (7th) 3.0
5 / 315
Increase 3
Ugo La Malfa
1976 846,415 (6th) 2.7
7 / 315
Increase 2
Giovanni Spadolini
1979 1,053,251 (7th) 3.4
6 / 315
Decrease 1
Giovanni Spadolini
1983 1,452,279 (5th) 4.7
11 / 315
Increase 5
Giovanni Spadolini
1987 1,248,641 (5th) 3.9
8 / 315
Decrease 3
Giorgio La Malfa
1992 1,565,142 (7th) 4.5
10 / 315
Increase 2
Giorgio La Malfa
1994 into Pact for Italy –
0 / 315
Decrease 10
Giorgio La Malfa
1996 Into the Ulivo –
0 / 315
-
Giorgio La Malfa
2001 Into Forza Italia –
1 / 315
Decrease 1
Giorgio La Malfa
2006 45,098 (24th)[b] 0.13
1 / 315
–
Francesco Nucara
2008 Into PdL[c] –
0 / 315
Decrease 1
Francesco Nucara
2013 8,476 (21st) 0.02
0 / 315
–
Francesco Nucara
2018 27,285 (20th)[d] 0.09
0 / 315
–
  1. ^ Two senators were elected in joint lists with the PSDI.
  2. ^ Senator elected with Forza Italia.
  3. ^ In 2011, a Republican replaced a senator of The People of Freedom.
  4. ^ In a joint list with Liberal Popular Alliance.

European Parliament[]

European Parliament
Election year Votes % Seats +/− Leader
1979 896,139 (8th) 2.6
2 / 81
Increase 2
Giovanni Spadolini
1984 2,140,501 (5th)[a] 6.1
2 / 81
–
Giovanni Spadolini
1989 1,532,388 (5th)[b] 4.4
3 / 81
Increase 1
Giorgio La Malfa
1994 242,786 (12th) 0.7
1 / 87
Decrease 2
Giorgio La Malfa
1999 168,620 (18th) 0.5
1 / 87
–
Giorgio La Malfa
2004 233,144 (16th) 0.7
0 / 78
Decrease 1
Giorgio La Malfa
  1. ^ Jointly with the PLI.
  2. ^ Jointly with the PLI and Marco Pannella.

Leadership[]

  • Secretary: Randolfo Pacciardi (1945–1949), Oronzo Reale (1949–1964), Oddo Biasini// (1964–1965), Ugo La Malfa (1965–1975), Oddo Biasini (1975–1979), Giovanni Spadolini (1979–1987), Giorgio La Malfa (1987–1993), Giorgio Bogi (1993–1994), Giorgio La Malfa (1994–2001), Francesco Nucara (2001–2013), (coordinator; 2014–2015), (coordinator; 2016–2017), (2017–present)
  • President: Oronzo Reale (1965–1975), Ugo La Malfa (1975–1979), Bruno Visentini (1979–1992), (1995–2000), Giorgio La Malfa (2001–2006), Francesco Nucara (2014–2016)
  • Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Randolfo Pacciardi (1946–1947), Cipriano Facchinetti (1947), (1947–1948), unknown (1948–1953), (1953–1962), Oronzo Reale (1962–1963), Ugo La Malfa (1963–1973), Oronzo Reale (1973–1974), Oddo Biasini (1974–1979), Oscar Mammì (1979–1981), (1981–1987), (1987–1993), Giuseppe Galasso (1993), (1993–1994), Luciana Sbarbati (1994–2001), Giorgio La Malfa (2001–2006), Francesco Nucara (2006–2013)

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