Centre-right in Italy

The Centre-right appears in Italy for the first time in 1850 when the Historical Right leader Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour and the Historical Left one, Urbano Rattazzi, joined a coalition known as Connubio. The other main political bloc is the Centre-left. Important leaders of the Italian centre-right were Silvio Berlusconi, Gianfranco Fini, Umberto Bossi, Pier Ferdinando Casini, Fernando Tambroni and Angelino Alfano.

In 1960, sponsored by President Giovanni Gronchi, the Christian Democratic leader Fernando Tambroni formed a cabinet and became Prime Minister. Tambroni's politics soon appeared strongly right-wing: having abandoned the alliance with the Italian Socialist Party, he was elected with votes coming also from the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), the liberals and the monarchists. On 21 May 1960, a street assembly led by the communist leader was stopped by police, with the support of the government. This caused a series of riots.

The most controversial decision of his mandate, however, was the permission to MSI to hold its national congress in Genoa, one of the capitals of Italian Resistance against Fascism. This move was considered a further and unacceptable opening to the former Fascists of the doors of the government. On 30 June 1960, a large demonstration summoned by the left-wing CGIL trade union and by other leftist forces in the streets of Genoa was heavily suppressed by the Italian police. Other popular demonstrations in Reggio Emilia, Rome, Palermo, Catania, Licata again saw violent intervention by the police, causing several deaths. Eventually, after grievances coming also from some sectors of Democrazia Cristiana, Tambroni was forced to resign, having been in charge only 116 days.

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