| Combatants' Party | |
| Native Name: | Partito dei Combattenti |
| Leader1 Title: | Secretary |
| Headquarters: | Rome, Italy |
| Ideology: | Italian nationalism Veterans' interests |
| Position: | Right-wing |
| Country: | Italy |
The Combatants' Party (Italian: Partito dei Combattenti, PdC) was a nationalist political party in Italy, whose aim was to protect the interests of First World War veterans.
It was formed for the 1919 general election and gained 4.1% of the vote and 20 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. The party joined the leftist Italian Socialist Party of Nicola Bombacci as part of the opposition against the Christian democrat/Liberal majority.
On 17 August 1920 the Combatants' Party changed its name into Party of Renewal (Partito del Rinnovamento)[1] or Group of Renewal (Gruppo del Rinnovamento), also opening up to non-combatants,[2] but causing a schism by a large number of sections, some of which wanted to maintain the non-partisan independence of the Association, while other sections proposed to found an Italian action party.
By the 1921 election it had declined and won only 1.7% of the vote and 10 seats.[3] This time they joined the governing coalition of the right headed up by the Italian People's Party and the National Bloc.
| Chamber of Deputies | |||||||||||
| width=13% | Election year | width=16% | Votes | width=6% | % | width=1% | Seats | width=8% | +/− | width=19% | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 232,923 (6th) | 4.1 | |||||||||
| 1921 | 113,839 (10th) | 1.7 | |||||||||