They both manipulated their legislature into dissolving any power that belonged to anyone other than the dictator. Mussolini pushed through election laws that the party with the most votes in the next Parliamentary election would receive ⅔ of the seats. When the Fascists got the next votes, thus getting a ⅔ majority, in 1925, Parliament named Mussolini head of government. On the first day of Hitler becoming chancellor, he manipulated the president of Germany to dissolve the Reichstag and called for new elections. On March 23, the newly elected Reichstag met and passed Hitler’s Enabling Act, which in effect would vote democracy out of existence in Germany and named Hitler the legal dictator of Germany. Mussolini and Hitler were very similar in how they came to power and in their overall
They both manipulated their legislature into dissolving any power that belonged to anyone other than the dictator. Mussolini pushed through election laws that the party with the most votes in the next Parliamentary election would receive ⅔ of the seats. When the Fascists got the next votes, thus getting a ⅔ majority, in 1925, Parliament named Mussolini head of government. On the first day of Hitler becoming chancellor, he manipulated the president of Germany to dissolve the Reichstag and called for new elections. On March 23, the newly elected Reichstag met and passed Hitler’s Enabling Act, which in effect would vote democracy out of existence in Germany and named Hitler the legal dictator of Germany. Mussolini and Hitler were very similar in how they came to power and in their overall