It was formed shortly after the end of the Second World War and participated in the first post-war election for the constituent assembly in 1946.

The Common Man's front opposed the broad alliance of anti-fascist parties united in the National Liberation Committee (CLN) and ranging from the Communists to the Christian Democrats as well as the occupation by the Allies.

Its leader, Guglielmo Giannini, found the difference between the disempowered fascists and the new rulers of the anti-fascist parties in the CLN to be negligible.

[4] In parts, it was a vehicle for its financial backers who were established southern dignitaries and ex-fascists who had not been admitted to the Italian Liberal Party.

The party rejected the partial and ineffective cleansing of the public service of former fascists, which they perceived as unfair because important persons and institutions were spared though they had been compromised with the old regime .

[5] It could benefit from the southerners' long-established dislike of the central government and the twenty years of political disinformation by the Fascists.

[6] In the constitutional referendum of 1946, it advocated to maintain the monarchy, but the majority of voters opted for the establishment of a republic.

[7] It was characterised by a very loose structure based only on highly autonomous local committees, the Friends of the Common Man.

[8] In August 1946 a group of dissatisfied former partisans and auxiliary police revolted in Piedmont and demanded, amongst other things, the ban of the Common Man's Front.