Italian Catholic voters backed liberal government candidates 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
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Plausibly connects to the Islamophobia readings on how political elites co-opt religious constituencies instrumentally.