The Agrarian Party (, PA) was a right-wing

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The Agrarian Party was the main movement of the land owners and it was characterized by a pro-business vision and a conservative and reactionary tendency. Its main members were the prince Pietro Lanza di Scalea, who served as

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in the first government of

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and later as Minister of the Colonies in the government of

Benito Mussolini Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (29 July 188328 April 1945) was an Italian politician and journalist who, upon assuming office as Prime Minister of Italy, Prime Minister, became the dictator of Fascist Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 un ...

, Francesco Saverio d'Ayala and Giovanni Lo Monte.Pietro Lanza di Scalea
''Senato della Repubblica'' In 1924, many members of the Agrarian Party merged into Mussolini's

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