Italian Radical Party
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Italian Radical Party
Partito Radicale Italiano |
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| Historical leaders |
Ettore Sacchi Francesco Saverio Nitti Ernesto Nathan |
| Founded | May 27, 1904 |
| Dissolved | April 26, 1922 |
| Preceded by | Historical Far Left |
| Merged into | Italian Social Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
| Ideology |
Radicalism Republicanism Decentralization Anti-clericalism Anti-nationalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Liberals–Democrats–Radicals |
| Colours | Brown (customary) |
The Italian Radical Party (Italian: Partito Radicale Italiano), better known simply as Radical Party (Partito Radicale, PR) or Historical Radical Party (Partito Radicale Storico), was a radical, secularist and left-liberal political party in Italy.
Since 1877 the Radical Party was active as a loose parliamentary group, emerged from The Extreme. The group was later organised as a full-fledged party in 1904 under the leadership of Ettore Sacchi.
Leading Radicals included Ernesto Nathan (mayor of Rome with the support of the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party from 1907 to 1913), Romolo Murri (a Catholic priest who was suspended for having joined the party and who is widely considered in Italy the precursor of Christian democracy), and Francesco Saverio Nitti.
Under the leadership of Nitti, the Radicals became part of the governing coalition dominated by the Liberals of Giovanni Giolitti, who had positioned his party in the centre-left and supported many Radical reforms, while the Radicals moved to the political centre. Nitti himself was Minister of the Treasury from 1917 to 1919 and Prime Minister from 1919 to 1920. In the 1919 general election the Radicals filed joint candidates with the Liberals in 54% of the constituencies.
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