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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 different factions and interests, especially with 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 Treaty Organization]] (NATO) in 1949 and became an ally of the United States, which helped to revive the Italian economy through the [[Marshall Plan]]. In the same yearsDuring that time, Italy also became a member of the [[European Coal and Steel Community]] (ECSC), which eventually transformolved into the [[European Union]] (EU).

After the liberation of Rome in June 1944, he served as minister without portfolio and then as Foreign Minister. In December 1945, he became Prime Minister for the first time, leading a coalition government that included the [[Italian Communist Party]] (PCI) and [[Italian Socialist Party]] (PSI). Communist party leader [[Palmiro Togliatti]] acted as vice-premier. He tried to soften the terms of the pending Allied peace treaty with Italy and secured financial and economic aid through the [[European Recovery Program]] (Marshal Plan) – which was opposed by the Communists.

In June 1946 Italy held the [[Italian constitutional referendum, 1946|Constitutional Referendum]] to decide whether Italy would remain a monarchy or become a republic. Republicans won with 54% of the vote. Elections were also held at the same time for the [[Constituent Assembly of Italy|Constituent Assembly]]. As chief of the Italian delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1946|World War II peace conference]] in Paris, De Gasperi obtained concessions from the Allies that guaranteed Italian sovereignty. Under the [[Treaty of Peace with Italy, 1947]], the eastern border area was lost to [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] and the free territory of [[Trieste]] was divided between the two states.

One his most striking achievements in foreign policy was the [[Gruber-De Gasperi Agreement]] with Austria in September 1946, that established his home region, southern Tirol, as an autonomous region.

==Social security reform==
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In domestic policy, a number of social security reforms were carried out by various ministers of De Gaspari's cabinets in the areas of rents and popular housing, unemployment insurances and pensions.

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