On 2 June 2023, Italy will celebrate the 77th anniversary of the Italian Republic.
On 2 June 1946, the referendum on the institutional form of the State was held, which by popular vote led to the birth of the Republic and the election of a Constituent Assembly. This came at the end of a complex period of transition marked by the actions of anti-fascist movements and parties and the advance of the Allies in a country divided and devastated by war.
Italian men, and for the first time Italian women - summoned to the polls to choose between the Republic and the Monarchy and to elect the deputies of the Constituent Assembly that would draw up the new constitutional charter - were called upon to cooperate in the foundation of an idea of republican citizenship that found one of its greatest expressions in the Constitution.
Voter turnout was extremely high.
In 1946, there were 28 million (28,005,449) eligible voters and almost 25 million (24,946,878), or 89.08%, actually voted.
By virtue of the results and having exhausted the evaluation of appeals, on 18 June 1946 the Court of Cassation officially proclaimed the birth of the Italian Republic.
Italy ceased to be a monarchy and became a Republic.
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