Labour Democratic Party

Labour Democratic Party Partito Democratico del Lavoro
Secretary	Ivanoe Bonomi
President	Meuccio Ruini
Founded	September 8, 1943 (1943-09-08)
Dissolved	January 31, 1948 (1948-01-31)
Preceded by	Italian Reformist Socialist Party Social Democracy (not legal predecessors)
Merged into	Italian Democratic Socialist Party (majority)
Headquarters	Rome
Newspaper	Ricostruzione
Ideology	Social democracy Social liberalism
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	National Liberation Committee (1943–1947) National Democratic Union (1946–1948)
Colors	Pink
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

The Labour Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Democratico del Lavoro), previously known as Labour Democracy (Italian: Democrazia del Lavoro), was an anti-fascist, social-democratic, and social-liberal political party in Italy. Founded in 1943 as the heir of the defunct Italian Reformist Socialist Party, it was formed by members of the Italian Socialist Party who wanted to cooperate with the Italian Liberal Party, the heir of the Liberal Union, which governed Italy from the days of Giovanni Giolitti. Leading members of the party were Ivanoe Bonomi, Meuccio Ruini, and Enrico Molè.

History[edit]

The party became one of the six members of the National Liberation Committee, which governed Italy during the war against Italian fascism from 1944 to 1946. After having taken part at the 1946 Italian general election within the National Democratic Union, composed of Benedetto Croce's Italian Liberal Party and pre-Fascist leading Liberal politicians, such as Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Francesco Saverio Nitti, some members joined the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, of which Bonomi was honorary chairman from 1947 until his death in 1951. Others joined the Italian Socialist Party, and the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Liberal Party as independents.

Electoral results[edit]

Italian Parliament[edit]

Chamber of Deputies
Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader
1946*	40,633 (#15)	0.18	9 / 556	–	Ivanoe Bonomi

Notes

In 1946 elections, the DL ran alone in some provinces and under the National Democratic Union in some others, and elected one and eight deputies.

v t e National Liberation Committee of Italy
Parties	Christian Democracy Italian Socialist Party Italian Communist Party Italian Liberal Party Action Party Labour Democratic Party
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Prime Ministers	Ivanoe Bonomi Ferruccio Parri Alcide De Gasperi

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Regionalist and federalist	Movement for the Independence of Sicily (1943–1951) Federalists and Liberal Democrats (1994–1996) Federalist Italian League (1995–1996) Great South (2011–2013)
Christian-democratic	Italian Catholic Electoral Union (1906–1919) Conservative Catholics (1913–1919) Italian People's Party (1919–1926) Christian Democracy (1943–1994) Italian People's Party (1994–2002) Christian Democrats for the Republic (1998) Christian Democratic Centre (1994–2002) United Christian Democrats (1995–2002) European Democracy (2001–2002) Christian Democracy for Autonomies (2005–2009) Union of Democrats for Europe (1999–2013)
Liberal-conservative	Economic Party (1919–1924) National Democratic Alliance (1953–1954) Italian Liberal Party (1922–1994) Forza Italia (1994–2009) The People of Freedom (2009–2013) Future and Freedom (2010–2014) New Centre-Right (2013–2017) Conservatives and Reformists (2015–2017) Direction Italy (2017–2019) Cambiamo! (2019–2022)
National-conservative	Common Man's Front (1946–1949) Monarchist National Party (1946–1959) People's Monarchist Party (1954–1959) Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (1959–1972) National Democracy (1977–1979) National Alliance (1995–2009)
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