1945 Istrian local elections
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Local elections in Zone B of the Julian March, occupied by Yugoslavia, were held on 25 November 1945. They were a farce led by the Communist forces.[1]
History[edit]
The election took place two weeks after the 1945 Yugoslavian parliamentary election. The haste to fix this appointment, when it was not yet scheduled either in Italy nor in the Julian March under US occupation, had the dual function of accelerating both the establishment of the communist dictatorship and the annexation to Yugoslavia.[2]
The Nazi defeat gave full power the Titoists, with all previous administrative fascist authorities fled or were killed in the Foibe massacres. The communists had therefore replaced them with many soviets, the People's Liberation Committees (CLP) with unlimited powers.
The subdivision of the territory, still in theory an Italian land according to the international law, was turned back to the Habsburg period. At provincial level there were three assemblies to be elected: the district of the Slovenian Littoral, the regional Istrian Assembly, and the city of Rijeka which, as in the Habsburg times, had a separate administration. Below the first two assemblies there were the local popular committees, in Istria the districts of Buie, Buzet, Cherso, Pićan, Lupoglav, Labin, Lošinj, Motovun, Pazin, Tinjan, Umag, Zminj, Parenzo, Rovinj and Dignano, the latter three in turn comprising a town committee.[Note 1]
The election was held under the single list of the Popular Front. The voters received a rubber ball to be deposited in one of the two ballot boxes, the red one for in favor and the black one for against. The Italian Liberation Committee invited via radio the Italians to the abstention. On the eve of the vote, the arrest of Antonio Budicin, an authoritative Italian-speaking member of the Istrian People's Committee as commissioner for social affairs and a long-time communist activist, firm supporter of the leftist policies of the new regime but critical to the nationalist ones, was accused of being a secret fascist sympathizer on the basis of pre-war documents suddenly found.
The turnout varied significantly between cities and countryside, also in relation to the ethnic distribution, but thanks to the threats of the Tito partisans it was still far superior to the absolute majority everywhere, and the same results was in favor of the single list. In December the new Istrian regional assembly and the local assemblies met, and elected the relative popular committees which in turn chose the executive committees to lead the new local administration, in office until 1949. Italy had to recognize this state of affairs in 1947 with the signing of the peace treaty.
Notes[edit]
- ↑ The far north was destined for the Slovenes, while Pula was occupied by the British.
References[edit]
See also[edit]
- 1945 Yugoslavian parliamentary election
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