Party of Italian Peasants

Party of Italian Peasants Partito dei Contadini d'Italia

President	Urbano Prunotto
Founder	Alessandro Scotti
Founded	1920 (1920)
Dissolved	1963 (1963)
Merged into	Italian Republican Party
Newspaper	La Voce del Contadino
Ideology	Agrarianism (official)
Political position	Centre
International affiliation	None
European affiliation	None
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

The Party of Italian Peasants (Italian: Partito dei Contadini d'Italia, PCd'I), later renamed Concentration Rural Unity (Italian: Concentrazione di Unità Rurale, CUR), was a small Italian political party founded in 1920.

History

Starting from left-wing agrarian and christian leftist ideas, the party moved to an independent ideological position, with the sole goal to defend the small farmers against the great landowners. Its symbol was an ear between some grapes, and its newspaper was called La Voce del Contadino ('The Farmer's Voice'). The party, born in Piedmont, was never able to rise on a national plan, being limited to the Po Valley.

The party first contested the general election of 1921 and then the 1924 one, where it elected 4 deputies, before being forcibly disbanded by the fascism. After the war, it was re-built by Alessandro Scotti, who was elected deputy in 1946 and 1948. However, the Christian Democracy had strongly taken the representation of the agrarian interests, and the party was consequently marginalized. It survived only on local plan for many years, before being finally disbanded in 1963, merging with the PRI.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
Chamber of Deputies
1924	73,569 (#11)	1.03	4 / 535	–	Alessandro Scotti
1929	banned	–	0 / 535	4	–
1934	banned	–	0 / 535	–	–
1946	102,393 (#10)	0.44	1 / 535	1	Alessandro Scotti
1948	95,914 (#9)	0.37	1 / 574	–	Alessandro Scotti
1953*	1,854,850 (#4)	6.85	1 / 590	–	Alessandro Scotti
1958**	173,227 (#10)	0.59	0 / 596	1	Urbano Prunotto
1963	92,209 (#10)	0.30	0 / 630	–	Urbano Prunotto

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
Senate of the Republic
1948	65,986 (#10)	0.29	0 / 237	–	Alessandro Scotti
1953*	1,581,128 (#4)	6.51	0 / 237	–	Alessandro Scotti
1958**	142,897 (#12)	0.55	0 / 246	–	Urbano Prunotto
1963	58,064 (#12)	0.21	0 / 315	–	Urbano Prunotto

Notes

In 1953 the PCd'I was affiliated with the Monarchist National Party
In 1958 the PCd'I was affiliated with Community Movement

Communist

Communist Party of Italy Italian Communist Party Union of Italian Communists (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Unity Party Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Democracy Movement of Unitarian Communists Movement for the Left Unite the Left Critical Left Party of Italian Communists

Socialist and social-democratic

Green

Green Lists Rainbow Greens Federalist Greens

Social-liberal

Centrist

Populars for Reform Segni Pact Italian Democratic Movement Italian Renewal United Consumers Union for the Republic Pact of Liberal Democrats Southern Democratic Party Middle Italy

Christian-democratic

Conservative-liberal

Liberals Economic Party Democratic Union for the New Republic Italian Liberal Party Italian Unionist Movement National Democratic Alliance Liberal Democratic Foundation Liberal Democratic Pole Union of the Centre The Liberals-Sgarbi Forza Italia Liberal Reformers Italian Liberal Right Labour and Freedom List The People of Freedom Future and Freedom

Conservative

Conservative Catholics Combatants' Party Agrarian Party Common Man's Front Italian Democratic Party Monarchist National Party People's Monarchist Party Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity National Democracy National Alliance Movement for Italy I Love Italy

Fascist

Italian Nationalist Association National Fascist Party Republican Fascist Party Italian Social Movement National Front (1967) National Front (1990) National Front (1997) Social Action

Regionalist and Federalist

Slavs and Germans Federalists and Liberal Democrats Federalist Party Federalist Italian League Federal Italy Autonomists for Europe Force of the South

Coalitions of parties

Leftist coalitions	Popular Democratic Front Alliance of Progressives Together with the Union The Left – The Rainbow For the Common Good Anticapitalist and Communist List Federation of the Left Civil Revolution

Centre-left coalitions	Socialist Unity Pact of Democrats The Olive Tree The Sunflower United Socialists for Europe The Union Rose in the Fist Italy. Common Good

Centrist coalitions	Pentapartito Pact for Italy White Flower The Clover New Pole for Italy With Monti for Italy European Choice

Centre-right coalitions	National Democratic Union National Bloc Pole of Freedoms Pole of Good Government Pole for Freedoms Segni Pact – National Alliance House of Freedoms The Autonomy

Rightist coalitions	National Blocs National List National Bloc of Freedom Social Alternative The Right–Tricolour Flame

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Party of Italian Peasants