| Popular Unity | |
| Native Name: | Unità Popolare |
| Leader: | Piero Calamandrei, Ferruccio Parri |
| Foundation: | 18 April 1953 |
| Dissolution: | 27 October 1957 |
| Merger: | Socialist Autonomy Movement Union of Republican Rebirth Justice and Freedom |
| Merged: | Italian Socialist Party |
| Newspaper: | Nuova Repubblica |
| Ideology: | Social democracy Social liberalism |
| Position: | Centre-left |
| Country: | Italy |
Popular Unity (Italian: Unità Popolare, UP) was a short-lived social-democratic and social-liberal and political party in Italy. Its leaders were Piero Calamandrei, a Democratic Socialist, and Ferruccio Parri, a Republican and former Prime Minister.
Popular Unity was formed in April 1953 by disgruntled members of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) and the Italian Republican Party (PRI), who again did not agree with the new electoral law.[1] [2]
Three different parties came together in Popular Unity:
The party won 0.6% of the vote in the 1953 general election and, along with the like-minded National Democratic Alliance, prevented the governing coalition from passing the 50% and getting the majority bonus (two thirds of the seats in the Chamber of Deputies).[3]
The party was active until 1957. After that, some of its members joined the Italian Socialist Party, but most of them returned to their former parties.