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Pola polling station for the 2nd June 1946 elections
At the end of the forty days of bloody Yugoslav occupation that began on May 1945, 1944, with Venezia Giulia divided along the Morgan Line into Zone A under Anglo-American military administration (Trieste, Gorizia and Pola) and Zone B under Yugoslav military administration (Istria and Fiume, Zadar having already been occupied in November 21), the Peace Conference was set in motion. On March 1946, XNUMX, the inter-allied commission that was to decide the fate of Pola, disputed between Italy and Yugoslavia, arrived in Pola. The patriotic demonstrations of the Polesani were significant, but in the Piazza del Foro the police of the Allied Military Government had to intervene to calm things down. The...
Julian-Dalmatians excluded from the June 2nd Referendum
Letter from Franco Luxardo (President of the Association of Italian Dalmatians in the World - Free Municipality of Zara in Exile) to Aldo Cazzullo's column "Letters to the Corriere". Few people know that College XII - "Trieste and Venezia Giulia - Zara" was unable to vote in the Referendum. We know the reasons: Yugoslav military occupation of Zara-Fiume and much of Istria, Free Territory of Trieste with American and English troops in Pola, Trieste and Gorizia. It was a real shame that hundreds of thousands of Italians were excluded from the founding moment of our Republic. Unfortunately, President Mattarella did not say it last night. I...
On June 2, 46, the people of Giulianova, Fiume and Zadar were unable to vote.
Of the 573 seats of the Constituent Assembly to be assigned and provided for by the Legislative Decree of the Lieutenant n. 74 of 10 March 1946, in reality only 556 were assigned, the 13 foreseen for the XII District (Trieste and Venezia Giulia – Zara) being missing, in addition to the 5 of the province of Bolzano. With a further Decree of the Lieutenant, only six days later, it was deemed impossible to hold elections in those border lands, due to the international situation. The founding moment of the Italian State emerging from the rubble of the conflict therefore took place without involving the citizens residing in lands that, until the deliberations...
The Eastern Border and the Vote of June 2, 1946
On the occasion of June 2, Republic Day, we are re-proposing this article by Prof. Davide Rossi (vice-president of Coordinamento Adriatico APS) regarding the failure to participate in the institutional referendum and the concurrent elections for the constituent assembly of the Julian, Fiuman and Zadar people. The mutilated Republic. Trieste and the vote of June 2, 1946: an unknown event by Davide Rossi - 03/06/2016 - Source: Ilgiornale OFF Few people know that the first Italian elections with universal suffrage, with direct, free and secret vote, took place with a territorial distortion that was not without consequences: it was June 2, 1946 – exactly seventy years ago – and, although...
Voting was not possible on June 2, 1946.
On June 2, 1946, Trieste, Gorizia, Pola, Fiume and Zara were excluded from the polls Published in Il Giornale d'Italia These days, we have celebrated the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the Italian Constitution (January 1948, 2), which all Italians should recognize themselves in. The Constituent Assembly that drafted it was elected at the same time as the institutional referendum of June 1946, XNUMX, the results of which have long been subject to doubts, as many maintain that the result was distorted in favor of the republican option. Only recently has it been highlighted that at that very important electoral appointment, which saw the...
