Republican Democratic Concentration

The Republican Democratic Concentration (Italian: Concentrazione Democratica Repubblicana; CDR) was a liberal and republican list which contested in the Italian general election of 1946. It was formed in February 1946 by Ferruccio Parri, a former Prime Minister of Italy, and Ugo La Malfa, following a split from the Action Party (PdA) which had just turned on socialist ideas. The two parties that merged into the CDR were:

• the Movement of Republican Democracy (Movimento della Democrazia Repubblicana), born on the initiative of Ferruccio Parri and Ugo La Malfa, who had left the Action Party during the first national congress held in February 1946. The movement also joined Oronzo Reale, Bruno Visentini and, initially, Altiero Spinelli;
• the Progressive Liberal Movement (Movimento Liberale Progressista), founded following the split, within the Italian Liberal Party, of the left faction against the creation of the National Democratic Union.

Its symbol was a black shield with a star above a little helmet.

The election gave poor results for both the CDR and the PdA. The CDR obtained only 0.4% of the votes and only the two leaders were elected, that decided to join the Republican group in the Constituent Assembly. In September, the CDR merged into the Italian Republican Party.

External links

• La Malfa's Foundation website (it.)

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Historical political parties in Italy

Communist

• Proletarian Unity Party (1972–1984)
• Italian Communist Party (1921–1991)
• Proletarian Democracy (1978–1991)
• Party of Italian Communists (1998–2014)

Democratic socialist

• Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party (1881–1893)
• Italian Workers' Party (1882–1892)
• Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (1964–1972)
• Democratic Party of the Left (1991–1998)
• Democratic Left (2007–2010)
• Left Ecology Freedom (2010-2016)

Social-democratic

• Italian Reformist Socialist Party (1912–1926)
• Unitary Socialist Party (1922–1930)
• Action Party (1929–1947)
• Unitary Socialist Party (1949–1951)
• Unified Socialist Party (1966–1969)
• Italian Socialist Party (1892–1994)
• Italian Democratic Socialist Party (1947–1998)
• Democrats of the Left (1998–2007)
• Italian Democratic Socialists (1998–2007)
• Article One (2017–2023)

Green

• Rainbow Greens (1989–1990)
• Federation of Green Lists (1986–1990)
• Federation of the Greens (1990–2021)

Radical and social-liberal

• Action Party (1853–1867)
• Italian Radical Party (1904–1922)
• Democratic Party (1913–1919)
• Constitutional Democratic Party (1913–1919)
• Italian Democratic Liberal Party (1919–1926)
• Social Democracy (1922–1926)
• Labour Democratic Party (1943–1948)
• Republican Democratic Concentration (1946)
• Radical Party (1955–1989)
• Democratic Alliance (1993–1997)
• The Network (1991–1999)

Centrist and liberal

• Liberal Union (1913–1922)
• Democratic Union for the Republic (1998–1999)
• Union for the Republic
• Italian Renewal (1996–2002)
• The Democrats (1999–2002)
• Segni Pact (1993–2003)
• Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (2002–2007)
• Civic Choice (2013–2019)
• Liberal Popular Alliance (2015–2018)

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)

Nationalist

• Italian Nationalist Association (1910–1923)
• Combatants' Party (1919–1923)
• National Fascist Party (1921–1943)
• Republican Fascist Party (1943–1945)
• Italian Social Movement (1946–1995)

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