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National Democratic Union (Italy)

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National Democratic Union Unione Democratica Nazionale

Leader	Benedetto Croce, Ivanoe Bonomi, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Founded	1946
Ideology	Liberalism Monarchism
Political position	Big tent
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The National Democratic Union (Italian: Unione Democratica Nazionale, UDN) was a political alliance of parties for the 1946 Italian general election, formed by the Italian Liberal Party, the Labour Democratic Party, and some other liberal, conservative, and monarchist clubs. Its symbol was an Italian flag overcome by a shining star.

History

The party scored 6.8%, placing itself at the fourth place in the election.^[1]^[2] This grouping, during the sessions of the Constituent Assembly, represented the continuation of the Liberal elite, which governed Italy from the years of Giovanni Giolitti until the rise of Benito Mussolini and the instauration of the Italian fascist regime. Important politicians elected on the UDN lists were Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Luigi Einaudi, Benedetto Croce, Enrico De Nicola, Gaetano Martino, Giuseppe Paratore, Ivanoe Bonomi, Raffaele De Caro, Meuccio Ruini, Enrico Molè, Bruno Villabruna, Epicarmo Corbino, and Aldo Bozzi. The alliance was succeeded in the 1948 Italian general election by the National Bloc.^[3]

Composition

Party		Ideology	Leader	Deputies
	Italian Liberal Party (PLI)	Conservative liberalism	Manlio Brosio
	Labour Democratic Party (DL)	Social democracy	Ivanoe Bonomi	8 out of 13^[4]

Electoral results

Election	Leader	Votes	%	Seats	Position	Status
1946	Several leaders	1,560,638	6.78	41 / 556	4th	Opposition

See also

National Democratic Union (Brazil)

References

^ John Foot (2014). Modern Italy. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-137-04192-0.
^ John Lamberton Harper (2002). America and the Reconstruction of Italy, 1945-1948. Cambridge University Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-521-52282-3.
^ Ram Mudambi; Pietro Navarra; Giuseppe Sobbrio (2001). "A History of the Italian Political System – 1913 to the Present". Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 31–32. ISBN 978-1-78195-082-1.
^ Even if 13 out of the 41 elected deputies were members of the DL, 5 members fled immediately after the poor result of the party.

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