List of Italian Prime Ministers, 1948-2012

One post, one Prime Minister, and the same person can't submit another post until at least other 2 people have. Terms are 4-years long.

1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI) :D
 
1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI) Dead 1949, due to complications after the Pallante assassination attempt

1949 Pietro Nenni (Italian Communist Party - PSI)
 
1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI) :D

Considering this is an unreconstructed Stalinist Communist Party who wouldn't surrender power but instead usher in the "dictatorship of the proletariat".


Palmiro Togliatti (1948-1964)
Luigi Longo (1964–1972)
Enrico Berlinguer (1972–1984)
Alessandro Natta (1984–1988)
Achille Occhetto (1988–1989)
 
1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI) Dead 1949, due to complications after the Pallante assassination attempt.

1949 Pietro Nenni (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

1952
Alcide De Gasperi (Christian Democracy - DC) Died prematurely in 1954.

1954 Antonio Segni (Christian Democracy - DC) Under his rule, conspiracy theories concerning De Gasperi's "assassination" arose.

@Aracnid: San Marino elected a Communist party once, and it democratically stepped down when the people voted it out. And, this is Italy, the United States wouldn't permit the establishment of a Communist nation in the Mediterranean. You can see it like that: in 1948, Togliatti got elected, and he probably would have established the dictatorship of the proletariat if he didn't get shot some time afterwards. Nenni succeeds him, and fearing American intervention he turns the Italian Socialist Party into more of a Democratic Socialist faction, distancing Italy from the USSR but also from the USA. De Gasperi gets elected with some fairly obvious help from the people close to the United States - even from the Mafia - but he gets shot from a left-wing extremist. Togliatti's election gave birth to the Years of Lead decades earlier, probably, but the Left is much more powerful than in OTL.
 
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1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI) Dead 1949, due to complications after the Pallante assassination attempt.

1949 Pietro Nenni (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

1952
Alcide De Gasperi (Christian Democracy - DC) Died prematurely in 1954.

1954 Antonio Segni (Christian Democracy - DC) Under his rule, conspiracy theories concerning De Gasperi's "assassination" arose.

@Aracnid: San Marino elected a Communist party once, and it democratically stepped down when the people voted it out. And, this is Italy, the United States wouldn't permit the establishment of a Communist nation in the Mediterranean. You can see it like that: in 1948, Togliatti got elected, and he probably would have established the dictatorship of the proletariat if he didn't get shot some time afterwards. Nenni succeeds him, and fearing American intervention he turns the Italian Socialist Party into more of a Democratic Socialist faction, distancing Italy from the USSR but also from the USA. De Gasperi gets elected with some fairly obvious help from the people close to the United States - even from the Mafia - but he gets shot from a left-wing extremist. Togliatti's election gave birth to the Years of Lead decades earlier, probably, but the Left is much more powerful than in OTL.

There is the significant fact that in Italy there were not Russian troops at helping their local communist brothers in ascending to power and the other side was enough armed to make the conquest of power with force even if succesfull a very bloody affair and the USA (or the UK for that matters) even if can tollerate a PCI regulary elected in power cannot permit a communist take over with the force.
Probably the death of Togliatti will cause a brief but very violent outpout of political violence before more levelhead leadeships from both side take control and even if the left is more powerfull than OTL remember that is historical very divided expecially between Communist and Socialist (the political violence will not aid) and without 'il migliore' (spoken with a little sarcasm please) the PCI can devolve in nasty infighting
 
^ in such an harsh political climate, everything could be said to discredit the opposition ;) after all, it's not like Italy is stranger to every sort of lunacy in the conspiracy field...
 
Ouch, considering I'm a socialist, such a typo is very bad :D

1956 Giuseppe Saragat, PSDI Italian Socialdemocratic Party

ITTL PSI and PCI didn't create the People's Front but rather presented themselves as Allied parties, thus preserving the PSI from a dramatic split and allowing a minority government with support from Republicans and other small moderate leftist groups; however, after the violent reaction to Togliatti's death, the rise of militant and armed extremism and the twin failures of both Nenni and the DC to stabilise the situation, USA shifts his support to the birth of pro-Western "Third Forces"
. Thus, Achille Lauro's People's Democratic Party rallies the moderate conservative factions, while Giuseppe Saragat creates its PSDI with moderates from the PSI and the PCI along with Republicans. The first Saragat government is a coalition with the crumbling DC. The PSI is moving in strange directions, think post-communist "People's Socialist Parties" in Northern Europe, while the PCI is falling back to Stalinism.
 
Here's the updated list. I made some slight aesthetic changes and added some infos.
@Manfr: i like the development of OTL People's Front parties...
This thread's becoming interesting, and probably the events in Italy could have some butterflies even in Europe, since the Peninsula seems to be distancing itself from both Washington and Moscow...

1948
Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI)

Dead 1949, due to complications after the Pallante assassination attempt. His death triggers a brief but serious burst of violence.

1949 Pietro Nenni (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

Seen as a mediocre Prime Minister by most.

1952
Alcide De Gasperi (Christian Democracy - DC)

Died prematurely in 1954.

1954 Antonio Segni (Christian Democracy - DC)

Under his rule, conspiracy theories concerning De Gasperi's "assassination" by Communist extremists arose. The man died of cancer, but Togliatti's assassination was seen by many as enough justification for a "revenge".

1956 Giuseppe Saragat (Italian Social Democratic Party - PSDI)

ITTL PSI and PCI didn't create the People's Front but rather presented themselves as Allied parties, thus preserving the PSI from a dramatic split and allowing a minority government with support from Republicans and other small moderate leftist groups; however, after the violent reaction to Togliatti's death, the rise of militant and armed extremism and the twin failures of both Nenni and the DC to stabilise the situation, USA shifts his support to the birth of pro-Western "Third Forces". Thus, Achille Lauro's People's Democratic Party rallies the moderate conservative factions, while Giuseppe Saragat creates its PSDI with moderates from the PSI and the PCI along with Republicans. The first Saragat government is a coalition with the crumbling DC. The PSI is moving in strange directions, think post-communist "People's Socialist Parties" in Northern Europe, while the PCI is falling back to Stalinism.
 
1960 - Amintore Fanfani (DC) become Prime Minister after a goverment shuffle due to a mix of internal rivalry and some minor financial scandal, considered a compromise candidate and a token gift to the DC last just a year before the end of the legislation and new election
 
1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI)

Dead 1949, due to complications after the Pallante assassination attempt. His death triggers a brief but serious burst of violence.

1949 Pietro Nenni (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

Seen as a mediocre Prime Minister by most.

1952
Alcide De Gasperi (Christian Democracy - DC)

Died prematurely in 1954.

1954 Antonio Segni (Christian Democracy - DC)

Under his rule, conspiracy theories concerning De Gasperi's "assassination" by Communist extremists arose. The man died of cancer, but Togliatti's assassination was seen by many as enough justification for a "revenge".

1956 Giuseppe Saragat (Italian Social Democratic Party - PSDI)

ITTL PSI and PCI didn't create the People's Front but rather presented themselves as Allied parties, thus preserving the PSI from a dramatic split and allowing a minority government with support from Republicans and other small moderate leftist groups; however, after the violent reaction to Togliatti's death, the rise of militant and armed extremism and the twin failures of both Nenni and the DC to stabilise the situation, USA shifts his support to the birth of pro-Western "Third Forces". Thus, Achille Lauro's People's Democratic Party rallies the moderate conservative factions, while Giuseppe Saragat creates its PSDI with moderates from the PSI and the PCI along with Republicans. The first Saragat government is a coalition with the crumbling DC. The PSI is moving in strange directions, think post-communist "People's Socialist Parties" in Northern Europe, while the PCI is falling back to Stalinism.

1960 Amintore Fanfani (Christian Democracy - DC)

Becomes Prime Minister after a goverment shuffle due to a mix of internal rivalry and some minor financial scandals, he was considered as a compromise candidate and a token gift to the DC last just a year before the end of the legislation and new elections.

1965 Achille Lauro (People's Democratic Party - PDP)

Fanfani ruled competently, but the shady way with which he was put into power, and accusations of corruption, gave enough material to his enemies to aggressively campaign against the Christian Democracy. The People's Democratic Party risen to prominence ten years earlier finally manages to become the ruling party, styling itself as the "saner" alternative for Italian moderates.
 
1969 Achille Lauro (People's Democratic Party PPD)

Lauro won in 1969 a meagre victory, due to rise of social tensions in 1968. He was eventually able to rally enough moderates behind the flag of his party due to a renewed Red Scare, but the strong comeback of the Socialist Party after the Prague Spring and rising frictions between moderate and progressive factions of the Christian Democracy ultimately forced Lauro to allow the birth of a minority Cabinet between PPD and DC, supported from the outside by the extremely conservative National Democratic Party, led by Alfredo Covelli, and born out of the fusion between Christian Democratic arch-conservatives, MSI neofascists moderates led by Michelini and conservative monarchists led by Covelli himself. The party's rise to prominence, with a 7% result, and its co-optation in the sphere of power, seriously jeopardized Italian politics, paving the way for further collaboration between Socialists and Socialdemocrats and creating a rift inside DC.
 
Lauro won in 1969 a meagre victory, due to rise of social tensions in 1968. He was eventually able to rally enough moderates behind the flag of his party due to a renewed Red Scare, but the strong comeback of the Socialist Party after the Prague Spring and rising frictions between moderate and progressive factions of the Christian Democracy ultimately forced Lauro to allow the birth of a minority Cabinet between PPD and DC, supported from the outside by the extremely conservative National Democratic Party, led by Alfredo Covelli, and born out of the fusion between Christian Democratic arch-conservatives, MSI neofascists moderates led by Michelini and conservative monarchists led by Covelli himself. The party's rise to prominence, with a 7% result, and its co-optation in the sphere of power, seriously jeopardized Italian politics, paving the way for further collaboration between Socialists and Socialdemocrats and creating a rift inside DC.

Did it succeed? Damn... butterflies are starting to leave Italy :D :cool:
 
1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI)

Dead 1949, due to complications after the Pallante assassination attempt. His death triggers a brief but serious burst of violence.

1949 Pietro Nenni (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

Seen as a mediocre Prime Minister by most.

1952
Alcide De Gasperi (Christian Democracy - DC)

Died prematurely in 1954.

1954 Antonio Segni (Christian Democracy - DC)

Under his rule, conspiracy theories concerning De Gasperi's "assassination" by Communist extremists arose. The man died of cancer, but Togliatti's assassination was seen by many as enough justification for a "revenge".

1956 Giuseppe Saragat (Italian Social Democratic Party - PSDI)

ITTL PSI and PCI didn't create the People's Front but rather presented themselves as Allied parties, thus preserving the PSI from a dramatic split and allowing a minority government with support from Republicans and other small moderate leftist groups; however, after the violent reaction to Togliatti's death, the rise of militant and armed extremism and the twin failures of both Nenni and the DC to stabilise the situation, USA shifts his support to the birth of pro-Western "Third Forces". Thus, Achille Lauro's People's Democratic Party rallies the moderate conservative factions, while Giuseppe Saragat creates its PSDI with moderates from the PSI and the PCI along with Republicans. The first Saragat government is a coalition with the crumbling DC. The PSI is moving in strange directions, think post-communist "People's Socialist Parties" in Northern Europe, while the PCI is falling back to Stalinism.

1960 Amintore Fanfani (Christian Democracy - DC)

Becomes Prime Minister after a goverment shuffle due to a mix of internal rivalry and some minor financial scandals, he was considered as a compromise candidate and a token gift to the DC last just a year before the end of the legislation and new elections.

1965 Achille Lauro (People's Democratic Party - PDP)

Fanfani ruled competently, but the shady way with which he was put into power, and accusations of corruption, gave enough material to his enemies to aggressively campaign against the Christian Democracy. The People's Democratic Party risen to prominence ten years earlier finally manages to become the ruling party, styling itself as the "saner" alternative for Italian moderates.

1969 Achille Lauro (People's Democratic Party PPD)

Lauro won in 1969 a meager victory, due to rise of social tensions in 1968. He was eventually able to rally enough moderates behind the flag of his party due to a renewed Red Scare, but the strong comeback of the Socialist Party after the Prague Spring and rising frictions between moderate and progressive factions of the Christian Democracy ultimately forced Lauro to allow the birth of a minority Cabinet between PPD and DC, supported from the outside by the extremely conservative National Democratic Party, led by Alfredo Covelli, and born out of the fusion between Christian Democratic arch-conservatives, MSI neofascists moderates led by Michelini and conservative monarchists led by Covelli himself. The party's rise to prominence, with a 7% result, and its co-optation in the sphere of power, seriously jeopardized Italian politics, paving the way for further collaboration between Socialists and Social Democrats and creating a rift inside DC.

1972 Giorgia Amendola (Italian Social Democratic Party - PSDI)

Although his party won by large margins and he was viewed very favorably by the Italian people, his term was prematurely ended following the Sammarinese Affair which successfully discredited both him and his government. The ensuing backlash resulted in a massive overhaul of Italian politics.
 
1974: Sandro Pertini (PSI) - after the terrible scandal a caretaker goverment was put in place to complete some institutional and economic reform, a figure beloved and trusted was needed so an outspoke outsider as Pertini was chosen
 
1948 Palmiro Togliatti (Italian Communist Party - PCI)

Dead 1949, due to complications after the Pallante assassination attempt. His death triggers a brief but serious burst of violence.

1949 Pietro Nenni (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

Seen as a mediocre Prime Minister by most.

1952
Alcide De Gasperi (Christian Democracy - DC)

Died prematurely in 1954.

1954 Antonio Segni (Christian Democracy - DC)

Under his rule, conspiracy theories concerning De Gasperi's "assassination" by Communist extremists arose. The man died of cancer, but Togliatti's assassination was seen by many as enough justification for a "revenge".

1956 Giuseppe Saragat (Italian Social Democratic Party - PSDI)

ITTL PSI and PCI didn't create the People's Front but rather presented themselves as Allied parties, thus preserving the PSI from a dramatic split and allowing a minority government with support from Republicans and other small moderate leftist groups; however, after the violent reaction to Togliatti's death, the rise of militant and armed extremism and the twin failures of both Nenni and the DC to stabilise the situation, USA shifts his support to the birth of pro-Western "Third Forces". Thus, Achille Lauro's People's Democratic Party rallies the moderate conservative factions, while Giuseppe Saragat creates its PSDI with moderates from the PSI and the PCI along with Republicans. The first Saragat government is a coalition with the crumbling DC. The PSI is moving in strange directions, think post-communist "People's Socialist Parties" in Northern Europe, while the PCI is falling back to Stalinism.

1960 Amintore Fanfani (Christian Democracy - DC)

Becomes Prime Minister after a goverment shuffle due to a mix of internal rivalry and some minor financial scandals, he was considered as a compromise candidate and a token gift to the DC last just a year before the end of the legislation and new elections.

1965 Achille Lauro (People's Democratic Party - PDP)

Fanfani ruled competently, but the shady way with which he was put into power, and accusations of corruption, gave enough material to his enemies to aggressively campaign against the Christian Democracy. The People's Democratic Party risen to prominence ten years earlier finally manages to become the ruling party, styling itself as the "saner" alternative for Italian moderates.

1969 Achille Lauro (People's Democratic Party - PDP)

Lauro won in 1969 a meager victory, due to rise of social tensions in 1968. He was eventually able to rally enough moderates behind the flag of his party due to a renewed Red Scare, but the strong comeback of the Socialist Party after the Prague Spring and rising frictions between moderate and progressive factions of the Christian Democracy ultimately forced Lauro to allow the birth of a minority Cabinet between PPD and DC, supported from the outside by the extremely conservative National Democratic Party, led by Alfredo Covelli, and born out of the fusion between Christian Democratic arch-conservatives, MSI neofascists moderates led by Michelini and conservative monarchists led by Covelli himself. The party's rise to prominence, with a 7% result, and its co-optation in the sphere of power, seriously jeopardized Italian politics, paving the way for further collaboration between Socialists and Social Democrats and creating a rift inside DC.

1972 Giorgio Amendola (Italian Social Democratic Party - PSDI)

Although his party won by large margins and he was viewed very favorably by the Italian people, his term was prematurely ended following the Sammarinese Affair which successfully discredited both him and his government. The ensuing backlash resulted in a massive overhaul of Italian politics.

1974 Sandro Pertini (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

After the terrible scandal, a caretaker goverment was put in place to complete some institutional and economic reform. A figure beloved and trusted was needed, so an outspoken outsider, Pertini, was chosen.

1978 Sandro Pertini (Italian Socialist Party - PSI)

Pertini eventually becomes the most loved Prime Minister since the founding of the Republic, giving stability to the nation's politics, but during his term, some bloody terroristic attempts by organized crime shook the nation.
 
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