Mussolini was not the first woman to lead a political party in Italy. He was a male politician who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 1922 to 1945. The first woman to lead a political party in Italy was Maria Montessori, who founded the Italian Montessori Society in 1924 and the Montessori Democratic Party in 1945.
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