Italy is set for its 68th government in 76 years. Why such a high turnover?
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- 11 Oct 2022
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Italy’s new parliament is convening this week to install its 68th government since the end of World War II
Averaging a new cabinet every 13 months, it seems that having a new government has become something of an annual tradition in Italy.
Here we look at why the country has such a high turnover of governments.
A brief outline of Italy’s political history
Italy has been a constitutional republic ever since an institutional referendum in 1946 decided to eliminate the monarchy.
In the first few years after World War II, the beleaguered country emerged weakened and humiliated due to its wartime alliance with Nazi Germany. The partisan forces that fought Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime temporarily set aside their political differences to form a coalition government that would lead the country out of the wreckage.
Italy’s political landscape, nonetheless, grew highly polarised by the 1950s, and saw the country largely split into two political camps: that of the Christian Democrats and the Communists. Read More...
