Giolitti allied with the Catholic Electoral Union in 1913 to block socialist gains

Evidence

At the elections of 1913 the first under universal suffrage Giolitti came to an agreement with Count Gentiloni, the president of the Catholic Electoral Union of Italy, whereby Catholic voters would support the governmental candidates in order to check the advance of the socialists. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1996

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Italy’s first universal-suffrage election hinged on a Catholic-liberal pact against socialism; Italian Catholic voters backed liberal government candidates to block socialist gains
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Italy’s first universal-suffrage election hinged on a Catholic-liberal pact against socialism; Italian Catholic voters backed liberal government candidates to block socialist gains

Broader Connections

• Italian Catholic voters backed liberal government candidates to block socialist gains #corroborates (0.92)
• Italy’s first universal-suffrage election hinged on a Catholic-liberal pact against socialism #corroborates (0.90)