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Christian Democracy (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana, DC) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy. The DC was founded on 15 December 1943 in the Italian Social Republic (Nazi-occupied Italy) as the nominal successor of the Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crusader shield (scudo crociato).
Bound uneasily together, these three political parties emerged from the Italian resistance as the major players in a post-war coalition government headed by the Christian Democratic leader Alcide De Gasperi. Their first task was to settle the new institutional arrangements for the state.
Collection: Oxford Handbooks Online. For almost half a century, since party leader Alcide De Gasperi was first named prime minister in December 1945, until the party was dissolved in January 1994, the DC (Democrazia Cristiana) was the veritable partito italiano. The DC was unmovable from power.
Jan 29, 2022 · Mr. Mattarella has presided over a chaotic seven years in which the country swung wildly from the left to the right, acting as the guardrails of Italy’s democracy. Share full article. President...
Nov 10, 2017 · The Italian Christian Democrats and Europe from De Gasperi to the Collapse of the First Republic. The first Italian Christian Democrat leader on whom we focus our attention is Amintore Fanfani. Fanfani belonged to the Christian Democratic ruling generation which took the place of De Gasperi during the mid-1950s.
- Antonio Varsori
- antonio.varsori@unipd.it
- 2018
Christian Democracy ( Italian: Democrazia Cristiana, DC) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy. The DC was founded on 15 December 1943 in the Italian Social Republic (Nazi-occupied Italy) as the nominal successor of the Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crusader shield ( scudo crociato ).
Abstract. This article discusses the nature of Italy's major post-war government party, Christian Democracy (recently collapsed, after almost half a century in power), and its local power structures.
