Acerbo Law
아체르보법
The Italian electoral law proposed by Baron Giacomo Acerbo and passed in November 1923, which gave two-thirds of the seats to the largest party provided it won at least 25 per cent of the vote, in order to hand Mussolini’s fascists a parliamentary majority.
In depth
Prime minister after the March on Rome, Mussolini had only 35 fascist deputies and 10 Nationalist allies and depended on a coalition. In the April 1924 election held under the new law in place of proportional representation, the fascist-led “National List” won about 65 per cent amid violence and fraud. Eleven days after the socialist Giacomo Matteotti denounced the fraud in parliament, he was murdered. The law was used only in the 1924 election, the last competitive election in Italy until 1946.