1946 Italian General Election (Viva il Re Scenario)

General Elections were held in Italy on 28 April 1946 to elect 650 members of the Constituent Assembly, an institutional body tasked of writing and then ratify the new Italian Constitution. King Victor Emanuel II dissolved the parliament through the Royal Electoral Commission, an organ led by the Ministry of Interior.

Background
After the Fascist Regime lost military control of the situation in Northern Italy in April 1945, the Allies enacted the final offensive liberating the productive and industrial centers of those regions. Mussolini was captured by the partisans who was quickly handled to Royal Italian Authorities. The US authorized the Monarchy to detain Mussolini and were free to treat him as they liked.

King Victor Emmanuel II nominated Alcide De Gasperi as President of the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of Italy, and gave him the task to form a national unity government founded on bipartisanship with Communist forces. De Gasperi announced that after the election, a referendum would take place to decide the fate of the monarchy.