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{{Infobox Prime Minister 
| name               = Alcide De Gasperi
| image              = Alcide de Gasperi 2.jpg
| order              = [[List of Prime Ministers of Italy|30th]] [[Prime Minister of Italy]]
| monarch            = [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy|Victor Emmanuel III]]<br>[[Umberto II of Italy|Umberto II]]
| 1blankname1        = Luogotenente
| 1namedata1         = [[Umberto II of Italy|Prince Umberto]]
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De Gasperi was the undisputed head of the Christian Democrats, the party that dominated Parliament for the next decades. Although his control of the DC appeared almost complete, he had to carefully balance 
of different factions and interests, especially overwith regards to relations with the Vatican, social reform, and foreign policy.

==Prime Minister==
From 1945 to 1953 he was the prime minister of eight successive Christian Democratic governments. His eight-year rule remains a landmark of political longevity for one leader in modern Italian politics. During his successive governments, Italy [[Italian constitutional referendum, 1946|became a Republic]] (1946), signed a [[Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1947|Peace Treaty with the Allies]] (1947), joined the [[North Atlantic Tre(contracted; show full)[[Category:Italian journalists]]
[[Category:Italian philologists]]
[[Category:Cold War leaders]]
[[Category:Italian anti-communists]]
[[Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
[[Category:Burials at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura]]
[[Category:Servants of God]]
[[Category:20th-century venerated Christians]]