Word: fascisti
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Signori di Capitani and Rossi, Ministers of Ministries which no longer existed, handed in their resignations. Which were accepted. Both gentlemen were suspected of anti-Fascist sympathy. Their resignation leaves Mussolini a Cabinet composed almost exclusively of loyal Fascisti...
...Fascist Party itself, Mussolini fears strong opposition, because the revolutionary party ranks were watered by a rush of Fascisti who wanted to hold office. These men would probably do anything to get and retain power...
Benito Mussolini projected two measures designed to give the Fascisti a majority in the Italian Parliament...
...percentage of seats in the Chamber of Deputies as its numbers bear to the electorate; a party that gets 40% of the votes gets 40% of the seats, etc.. Italy has many political parties and under this system the Catholic Party held the balance of power while the Fascisti and Nationalists combined only held 50 seats...
...proportional representation is a good thing, but only for the minority. He has proposed that Italy be considered as a single district. The party getting the largest vote gets two-thirds of the seats, the other third to be divided proportionally among the other parties. Under this scheme, the Fascisti Party might have only one-third of the votes, but get two-thirds of the seats...