Editing Ferruccio Parri (section)

===In Parliament===
In spite of the wartime strength of ''Giustizia e libertà'' the Action Party quickly faded from the Italian political scene, winning 1.46% in the [[1946 Italian general election|1946 Constituent Assembly election]]. Parri, along with [[Ugo La Malfa]], left the party shortly before the election to form the [[Republican Democratic Concentration]] (''Concentrazione Democratica Repubblicana''; CDR), which won 0.42% and elected its two most prominent members as deputies. The CDR would be absorbed the following year into the [[Italian Republican Party]] (PRI).

He became a Senator in 1948.

In 1953 Parri, who was opposed to [[1953 Italian general election#"Scam law"|recent changes]] to the election law, left the PRI to establish the short-lived [[Popular Unity (Italy, 1953)|Popular Unity]] (''Unità Popolare''; UP) with former Action Party member [[Piero Calamandrei]], with the goal of preventing the centrist coalition from winning a majority bonus of seats. The party, which failed to elect any members, was absorbed into the [[Italian Socialist Party]] in 1957.

In 1958 he was re-elected to the Senate as an independent in the Socialist party list. He proposed to form a [[Antimafia Commission|parliamentary inquiry committee]] to investigate the [[Sicilian Mafia]]. The proposal was opposed by the parliamentary majority with various arguments, and dismissed by Christian Democratic Senators [[Bernardo Mattarella]] and [[Giovanni Gioia]] as "useless".<ref name=fontanel>{{in lang|it}} L'istituzione della prima Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sulla mafia in: L'art. 41-bis l. 354/75 come strumento di lotta contro la mafia, by Elisa Fontanelli, bachelor's degree dissertation, Florence University, 2005</ref> It was finally established in 1963.

In 1963, President [[Antonio Segni]] appointed Parri [[senator for life]]. He joined the Independent Left group, and was for a long time its chairman from 1972 until his death. In March of the same year, he became the editor of the magazine ''[[L'Astrolabio]]'', in which he argued in favour of a more accomplished democracy and denounced the resurgence of [[neofascism]].<ref>{{in lang|it}} [http://www.centrostudimalfatti.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=177:ferruccio-parri&catid=14:o-q&Itemid=33 Ferruccio Parri], Centro Studi Politici e Sociali F. M. Malfatti (accessed 30 January 2011)</ref><ref>Roland Sarti ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xhoLorFC1iwC Italy: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present]'', Infobase Publishing, 2004, p.532</ref>

From 1949 until 1969 he was president of the [[Federazione italiana associazioni partigiane|Italian Federation of Partisan Associations]], an association of Resistance veterans that grouped members of ''Giustizia e Libertà'', as well as members of Socialist, Republican, and anarchist groups.

[[File:Genova-Staglieno--Tomba_di_Parri-DSCF8996.JPG|250px|thumb|left|Epigraph on the tomb of Parri in Genoa.]]