Italy’s Catholic party supported fascism before being suppressed and dissolved by 1926.
Evidence
October 1922 was the date of the March on Rome. The Popular Party see note 14 on p. 62 above) at first supported the fascists in parliament and joined the government. In the summer of 1923, however, it split on the issue of policy towards the fascists, and in the elections of January 1924 it presented its own list of candidates. After the elections it refused to join a common front of opposition parties. On 3 January 1925, the fascist government suppressed freedom of the press. On 8 November 1926 the opposition parties were formally dissolved, and non-fascist deputies were declared to be stripped of their mandates Gramsci among them (he was arrested on the same day). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2262
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Popular Party founded in 1919 re-emerged after fascism as Christian Democracy