First Facta government

{{Short description|57th Government of Kingdom of Italy}}

{{Infobox government cabinet

|cabinet_name = Facta I government

|cabinet_number = 57th

|jurisdiction = Italy

|flag = Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg

|flag_border = true

|image = Luigi Facta 1922 (cropped).jpg

|date_formed = 26 February 1922

|date_dissolved = 1 August 1922

|government_head = Luigi Facta

|state_head = Victor Emmanuel III

|current_number =

|former_members_number =

|total_number = 15

|political_party = PPI, PLI, PLD, DS, PSRI, PA

|election =

|last_election =

|legislature_term =

|previous = Bonomi I Cabinet

|successor = Facta II Cabinet

}}

The Facta I government of Italy held office from 26 February 1922 until 1 August 1922, a total of 237 days, or 7 months and 22 days.[http://storia.camera.it/governi/i-governo-facta I Governo Facta] It replaced the first cabinet of Ivanoe Bonomi which had not been given a vote of confidence by the Chamber of Deputies on 17 February.{{cite journal|title=Italy's New Cabinet and the Fiume Episode|journal=Current History|date=April 1922|volume=16|issue=1|jstor=45329293|pages=168–170

|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45329293}}

Government parties

The government was composed by the following parties:

class=wikitable style="font-size:100%"
colspan=2|Party

!Ideology

!Leader

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian People's Party (1919)}}" |

| Italian People's Party

| Christian democracy

| Luigi Sturzo

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| Italian Liberal Party

| Liberalism

| Giovanni Giolitti

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Liberal Democratic Party (Italy)}}" |

| Democratic Liberal Party

| Liberalism

| Francesco Saverio Nitti

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Social Democracy (Italy)}}" |

| Social Democracy

| Social liberalism

| Giovanni Antonio Colonna

style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Reformist Socialist Party}}" |

| Italian Reformist Socialist Party

| Social democracy

| Ivanoe Bonomi

style="color:inherit;background:#006600" |

| Agrarian Party

| Agrarianism

| Pietro Lanza di Scalea

Composition

The cabinet members were as follows:

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Office

! Name

! colspan=2|Party

! Term

Prime Minister

| Luigi Facta

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| Italian Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

colspan=6|
Minister of the Interior

| Luigi Facta

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| Italian Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Foreign Affairs

| Carlo Schanzer

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Liberal Party (Italy)}}" |

| Democratic Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Justice and Worship Affairs

| Luigi Rossi

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Liberal Party (Italy)}}" |

| Democratic Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Finance

| Giovanni Battista Bertone

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian People's Party (1919)}}" |

| Italian People's Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Treasury

| Camillo Peano

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Liberal Party (Italy)}}" |

| Democratic Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of War

| Pietro Lanza di Scalea

| style="color:inherit;background:#006600" |

| Agrarian Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of the Navy

| Roberto De Vito

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Social Democracy (Italy)}}" |

| Social Democracy

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Industry and Commerce

| Teofilo Rossi

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| Italian Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Public Works

| Vincenzo Riccio

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| Italian Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Agriculture

| Giovanni Bertini

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian People's Party (1919)}}" |

| Italian People's Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Public Education

| Antonio Anile

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian People's Party (1919)}}" |

| Italian People's Party

| (1922–1922)

Minister of Labour and Social Security

| Arnaldo Dello Sbarba

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Reformist Socialist Party}}" |

| Italian Reformist Socialist Party

| (1922–1922)

rowspan=2|Minister of Post and Telegraphs

| Giovanni Antonio Colonna

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Social Democracy (Italy)}}" |

| Social Democracy

| (1922–1922)

Luigi Fulci

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Social Democracy (Italy)}}" |

| Social Democracy

| (1922–1922)

Minister of the Colonies

| Giovanni Amendola

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Democratic Liberal Party (Italy)}}" |

| Democratic Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

rowspan=2|Minister for the Lands freed by the Enemy

| Luigi Facta

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| Italian Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

Maggiorino Ferraris

| style="color:inherit;background:{{party color|Italian Liberal Party}}" |

| Italian Liberal Party

| (1922–1922)

References

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