Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy

25 Luglio
Count Dino Grandi, the President of the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
Date24–25 July 1943
LocationRome, Italy
Participants
OutcomeCoup successful

The Fall of the Fascist regime in Italy, also known in Italy as 25 Luglio (Italian: Venticinque Luglio, pronounced [ˌventiˈtʃiŋkwe ˈluʎʎo]; lit.'July 25th'), came as a result of parallel plots led respectively by Count Dino Grandi and King Victor Emmanuel III during the spring and summer of 1943, culminating with a successful vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister Benito Mussolini at the meeting of the Grand Council of Fascism on 24–25 July 1943. The vote, although significant, had no de jure value, since by law in the Italian constitutional monarchy the prime minister was responsible for his actions only to the king, who was the only one who could dismiss him. As a result, a new government was established, putting an end to the 21 years of Fascist rule in the Kingdom of Italy, and Mussolini was placed under arrest.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Bianchi (1963), p. 609
  2. ^ Bianchi (1963), p. 704
  3. ^ De Felice in Grandi (1983), p. 21
  4. ^ De Felice (1996), p. 1391

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