Balbo Cabinet
The Balbo cabinet ruled the Kingdom of Sardinia- Piedmont from March 16 to July 27, 1848. In the revolutionary year of 1848, King Karl Albert imposed a constitution on March 4 with the Statuto Albertino . On this basis, he appointed Cesare Balbo for prime minister . The new constitution did not actually provide for this office of prime minister because, according to the constitution, the king and his ministers should form the government. The king allowed not only a prime minister, but also the government's dependence on the confidence of parliament. By then Sardinia-Piedmont (and from 1861 formed Kingdom of Italy ) not only constitutional , but de facto a parliamentary monarchy and remained so despite the reactionary movements in several other European countries too.
When the parliament already expressed distrust on July 5, 1848, Balbo submitted his resignation, but remained in office until the takeover by the following cabinet. Within a year, the Balbo cabinet was followed by six other cabinets, which basically rejected the new constitution. From 1849 the political situation stabilized, first under Massimo d'Azeglio and then under Camillo Benso von Cavour .
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- Denis Mack Smith: Modern Italy. A political history. New Haven / London 1997.
- Indro Montanelli , Mario Cervi: L'Italia del millennio. Rizzoli, Milan 2000.