People's Monarchist Party (Italy)

The People's Monarchist Party (Italian: Partito Monarchico Popolare, PMP) was an Italian conservative party founded in 1954 by a split from the National Monarchist Party. It was led by Achille Lauro, long-time Mayor of Naples. It took part in the 1958 election and won 14 seats to the Chamber of Deputies and 5 seats to the Senate.^[2]

People's Monarchist Party Partito Monarchico Popolare
Secretary	Achille Lauro
Founded	June 2, 1954 (1954-06-02)
Dissolved	March 7, 1959; 66 years ago (1959-03-07)
Split from	National Monarchist Party
Merged into	Italian Democratic Party
Headquarters	Naples, Italy
Ideology	Monarchism[1]
Colours	Blue
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In 1959, after this good result (2.6%, while the rival PNM scored just 2.2%), the party re-joined the National Monarchist Party to form the Italian Democratic Party, latterly named Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity.

Election results

Chamber of Deputies

Election	Votes	%	Seats	Leader
1958	776,919 (7th)	2.63	14 / 630	Achille Lauro

Senate

Election	Votes	%	Seats	Leader
1958	774,242 (7th)	2.16	5 / 315	Achille Lauro