Vittorio Bruno

Vittorio Bruno is the current Prime Minister of Italy. He is also the founder and current leader of the Italian Reformists Socialist Party after it split from the Party of Italian Workers in 1919.

Biography
Vittorio Emmanuel Francesco Bruno was born in Palermo, Sicily, on the 2nd of May 1889. His father, Francesco Bruno, was an economics professor at the University of Palermo. His mother, Margherita Bruno, was a housewife and a governess for wealthy families.

While he grew up, Vittorio presented himself as a quick learner and a passionate student. His interest in socialism came from his friends. While being an economics student at the University of Palermo, there were multiple instances of Vittorio getting into trouble trying to spread his socialist ideas.

After finishing university and obtaining an academic degree in economics, Vittorio moved to Rome for a job as an economic journalist and joined the Party of Italian Workers. During the Great War, Vittorio did not perform military service, officially because of an artery condition. It is rumoured, however, that Bruno faked this affliction to avoid military service. Considering the Socialist Party's attitude towards the war at the time, this doesn't seem impossible.

After the war, Bruno grew more and more prominent within the Party of Italian Workers, presenting himself as a social democrat, opposed to the more radical elements in the Party. After the death of the party's leader, Adriano Giovanardi in 1919, Bruno grew to be the leader of the new Italian Reformists Socialist Party.

In 1921, following the instability under Aurelio Sabbatini's government, elections were held. In these elections, the Italian Reformists Socialist Party managed to obtain a majority and formed a coalition with the Italian Workers' Revolutionary Party. Vittorio Bruno became Prime Minister of Italy.