Labour Democratic Party

Labour Democratic Party Partito Democratico del Lavoro
Secretary	Ivanoe Bonomi
President	Meuccio Ruini
Founded	September 8, 1943 (1943-09-08)
Dissolved	January 31, 1948 (1948-01-31)
Preceded by	Reform Socialist Party (not legal predecessor)
Merged into	Italian Socialist Party (majority)
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Newspaper	Ricostruzione
Ideology	Social democracy Social liberalism Anti-fascism
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	National Democratic Union (1946-1948)
International affiliation	None
Colors	Pink
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

The Labour Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Democratico del Lavoro, PDL) was a social-liberal political party in Italy, founded in 1943 as the heir of defunct Italian Reformist Socialist Party, formed by those Socialists who wanted to cooperate with the Liberal political guard which governed Italy from the days of Giovanni Giolitti. Leading members of the party were Ivanoe Bonomi, Meuccio Ruini and Enrico Molè.

History

The party became one of the six members of the National Liberation Committee which governed Italy during the war against Fascism from 1944 to 1946. After having fought the 1946 general election within the National Democratic Union, composed basically by Benedetto Croce's Italian Liberal Party and by pre-Fascist leading Liberal politicians, such as Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Francesco Saverio Nitti, some members joined the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, of which Bonomi was honorary chairman from 1947 until his death in 1951, but also the Italian Socialist Party and, as independents, the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Liberal Party.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Chamber of Deputies
Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
1946*	40,633 (#15)	0.18	4 / 556	–	Ivanoe Bonomi

Notes

• In 1946 elections, the PDL ran alone, but elected 3 deputies under the National Democratic Union.