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institutional referendum of 2 June 1946

The Italians were called June 2, 1946 to choose between monarchy and republic. The polls gave a verdict in favor of the republic for a million votes, but even then there were those who doubted the election results. To resolve the doubt, at least for the position of the major parties, it warrants the following notice to Congress of the agency concerning the Christian Democrats held on April 25, 1946:

"Rome. The delegate speaks Attilio Piccioni early position taken by the Democratic Party than the institutional issue. Remember that in September 1944 the Council of the party declared that the DC was not linked to manoarchia nell''agosto of '45 and the Board took note of the prevailing trend Republican and ordered an internal investigation on this issue. The data received from 86 provincial committees of the DC are as follows: about 836,812 voters, 503,085 voted for the Republican solution. 146,061 for the solution of the monarchy, while 187,666 have taken a position of neutrality or agnosticism. Thus there is a figure of 60 per cent for the republic, 17 percent for the monarchy and 23 percent of the agnostic position. The Christian Democrats would have preferred Italy to be spared this new strain, but the story, such as Providence, has its ways and groped in vain to block ' (Aug. Ansa, April 25 1946, ore 15.10).

In practice Catholics are abandoning the monarchy, after the Providence in the person of His Excellency Cav. Benito Mussolini had recognized her husband, who had ended the long conflict between the monarchy and the papacy lasted nearly sixty years after the breach of Porta Pia and the end of the temporal power of popes. The Lateran survive the Monarchy and Fascism, will be included in the new constitution and to this day govern relations between church and state.

Links:
1. Chamber of Deputies: the institutional referendum .
2. History: Monarchy or republic? .