People's Unity (Italy)

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People's Unity (Unità Popolare, UP) was a social-democratic and social-liberal Italian political party.

It was formed in April 1953 by disgruntled members of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) and the Italian Republican Party (PRI), who did not agree with the new electoral law approved by the Parliament with the support of their parties. Its leaders were Ferruccio Parri (ex-PRI) and Piero Calamandrei (ex-PSDI). The party won 0.6% of the votes in the 1953 general election.

The party was active until 1957. After then its members joined the parties of the centre-left, including the Italian Socialist Party (as Parri did), but most of them returned to their original parties.