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  • Citing the Belfast Telegraph, the article states:

    The assassination attempt started a wave of popular support for Mussolini, resulting in the passage of pro-Fascist legislation which helped consolidate his control of Italy.

    Suggesting a causal link between the assassination attempt and Mussolini’s supposed popularity. Meanwhile, elsewhere on wikipedia:

    On 7 April 1926, Mussolini survived a first assassination attempt by Violet Gibson, an Irish woman and daughter of Lord Ashbourne, who was deported after her arrest.[83] On 31 October 1926, 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni attempted to shoot Mussolini in Bologna. Zamboni was lynched on the spot.[84][85] Mussolini also survived a failed assassination attempt in Rome by anarchist Gino Lucetti,[86] and a planned attempt by the Italian anarchist Michele Schirru,[87] which ended with Schirru’s capture and execution.[88]

    All other parties were outlawed following Zamboni’s assassination attempt in 1926, though in practice Italy had been a one-party state since 1925 (with either his January speech to the Chamber or the passage of the Christmas Eve law, depending on the source)