Italian Reformist Socialist Party

Italian Reformist Socialist Party Partito Socialista Riformista Italiano
Leaders	Leonida Bissolati Ivanoe Bonomi Arturo Labriola Alberto Beneduce
Founded	June 10, 1912 (1912-06-10)
Banned	November 6, 1926 (1926-11-06)
Split from	Italian Socialist Party
Succeeded by	Labour Democratic Party (not legal successor)
Headquarters	Rome
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

The Italian Reformist Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Riformista Italiano, PSRI) was a social-democratic political party in Italy.

History

It was formed in 1912 by those leading reformist socialists who had been expelled from the Italian Socialist Party because of their desire of entering in the majority supporting Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti. Leading members of the PSRI were Leonida Bissolati, Ivanoe Bonomi, and Meuccio Ruini.^[1] In the 1913 Italian general election, the party won 2.6% of the vote and 21 seats in single-seat constituencies spread in almost all the Italian regions; some others, such as Ruini, were elected for the Italian Radical Party.^[2] In the 1919 Italian general election, they won 1.5% of the vote and gained 15 seats under the new proportional representation system.^[3]

The party was dissolved by the Italian fascist regime on 6 November 1926, together with all opposition parties. After World War II, Bonomi and Ruini launched the Labour Democratic Party as the continuation of the PSRI and positioned it within the National Democratic Union, which comprised the Italian Liberal Party and some former Radicals.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Chamber of Deputies
Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader	Government
1913	196,406 (6th)	3.9	19 / 508	–	Leonida Bissolati	Opposition (1914–1916)
						Coalition (1916–1920)
1919	82,157 (9th)	1.4	6 / 508	13	Leonida Bissolati	Opposition (1920)
						Coalition (1920–1922)

References

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