Italian Unionist Movement

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Italian Unionist Movement Movimento Unionista Italiano
Leader	Ugo Damiani [it]
Founded	12 October 1944 (1944-10-12)
Dissolved	31 January 1948 (1948-01-31)
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Ideology	Americanism Atlanticism Liberal conservatism Federalism
Political position	Centre-right
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The Italian Unionist Movement (Italian: Movimento Unionista Italiano) was a short-lived Italian political party that advocated for Italy to become part of the United States.^[1]

The party was founded on 12 October (Columbus Day) 1944 by sociologist Ugo Damiani [it], Calabrian activist Santi Paladino and ISTAT researcher Corrado Gini. The party emblem featured a globe with the American flag and Italian flag and the words "Peace and work" and "United States of the World". According to the three men, the government of the United States should annex all free and democratic nations worldwide, thereby transforming itself into a world government, and allowing Washington, D.C. to maintain Earth in a perpetual condition of peace. Paladino stated, "With a federation of the United States, Italy and some other nations, and a lot of atomic bombs, there would be no wars. This would solve all of Italy's problems."^[2] Paladino argued that a closer union with the United States was necessary to counter the advance of communism under Soviet leadership.^[2]

After some success in local elections in Southern Italy in 1946, the party ran in the 1946 Italian general election, the first general elections held in Italy after the fall of fascism. The party's results were very poor, receiving only 0.3% of votes, with only Ugo Damiani being elected in the Constituent Assembly. As MP, Damiani supported federalistic ideas, but the main goal of the party was evidently impossible to reach. As the American government did not support the party or its project, the movement was disbanded in 1948.^{[citation needed]}

Italian Parliament

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Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leader
Chamber of Deputies
1946	71,021 (13th)	0.31	1 / 556	–	Ugo Damiani

References

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^ "Want Italy 49th State". The Spokesman-Review. 13 October 1947. p. 19. Archived from the original on 13 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
^ ^a ^b "Italy: The 49th State". Time. 15 April 1946.

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