Instability in Italy 1912-1914
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- Italy instability 1912-1914
- Libya invasion
- Tried to absorb the nationalists by appeasing them- opposite effect and increased ANI support but showed the discontent against liberals.
- nationalists took credit for invasion due to their pressure on Giolitti and due to their lack of patriotism was why so many lives was lost
- Critically broke down Giolitti's relationship with PSI who had strongly opposed any action in Libya
- eventually radical socialists seized control and refused any cooperation with liberals
- A young radical socialist- Mussolini started a campaign on the magazine he edited 'avanti!'. Focused a campaign in the corrupt liberal Italy and militarists who had murdered workers in both countries
- eventually radical socialists seized control and refused any cooperation with liberals
- Tried to absorb the nationalists by appeasing them- opposite effect and increased ANI support but showed the discontent against liberals.
- Franchise extension
- Further problems by the changes to suffrage, hard to deny those who fought in Libya even though they didn't have the required literacy rate
- 1912- vote extended to all men with military duty and over 30
- even though over 70% of the vote where now illiterate, Giolitti hoped suffrage= greater national unity, strengthen vote for liberals in rural areas
- also undermine PSI as working class less likely to support radical ideologies
- even though over 70% of the vote where now illiterate, Giolitti hoped suffrage= greater national unity, strengthen vote for liberals in rural areas
- also undermine PSI as working class less likely to support radical ideologies
- 1912- vote extended to all men with military duty and over 30
- Further problems by the changes to suffrage, hard to deny those who fought in Libya even though they didn't have the required literacy rate
- Resignation of Giolitti
- First vote in 1913 failed for Giolitti
- Liberal deputies won 318, loss of 71 from 1909
- Made even worse as liberals had struck deal with catholic electoral union who asked for several key points in return for catholic vote
- leader of Catholics- Gentiloni claimed 228 of liberal deputies where due to catholic support- true or not liberals more reliant on catholic support than ever.
- Giolitti resigned after the concessions further angered socialists and anticlerical liberals who in the spring of 1914 withdrew their support after the claims by Gentilonis on their pact
- leader of Catholics- Gentiloni claimed 228 of liberal deputies where due to catholic support- true or not liberals more reliant on catholic support than ever.
- Made even worse as liberals had struck deal with catholic electoral union who asked for several key points in return for catholic vote
- Liberal deputies won 318, loss of 71 from 1909
- First vote in 1913 failed for Giolitti
- Libya invasion
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