- published: 07 Nov 2011
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The Italian People's Party (Italian: Partito Popolare Italiano, PPI) was a Christian democraticpolitical party in Italy, inspired by Catholic social teaching.
The Italian People's Party was founded in 1919 by Luigi Sturzo, a Sicilian Catholic priest. The PPI was backed by Pope Benedict XV to oppose the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). The party supported various social reforms, including the foundations of a welfare state, women's suffrage and Proportional representation voting.
In the 1919 general election, the first in which the PPI took part, the party won 20.5% of the vote and 100 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, a result virtually confirmed in 1921. The PPI was the second largest Italian political party after the PSI at the time. Its heartlands were interior Veneto and north-western Lombardy. In 1919 the party won 42.6% in Veneto (49.4% in Vicenza), 30.1% in Lombardy (64.3% in Bergamo), 24.4% in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 27.3% in the Marche and 26.2% in Lazio, while it was much weaker in Piedmont and in Southern Italy.
And all the causes that you're fighting for can't stand up to your tan
Flip-flop and recreate yourself so you can make the common stand
Out in front of the clinic holding signs, pretending that you mind
You take the things that no one should say
And you put them on display
Come off your soapbox
Let us think for ourselves
And I swear we will find our way
So now you've got your bridge, you've got your friends
You've finally got your chance
To take the plunge just like a lemming should
To jump with all of them
Battles with the stubborn and the blind are a waste of my time