[1] Both the middle and working classes supported the socialists and communists out of fear that San Marino would return to being ruled by an oligarchy of local patrician families.

[better source needed] The government instituted several reforms and, of the industries of San Marino, only nationalized three drugstores.

Given the deadlock, the Captains-Regent avoided convening the council until the mandatory 19 September regency election to choose their replacements.

Federico Bigi, leader of the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party, led his men into a church and declared the communist government illegal, forming an executive council.

[1] On 28 September, the Italian carabinieri and soldiers set up roadblocks on highways leading into San Marino and refused passage to anyone besides journalists and foreign tourists.

This was to ensure that communists from Romagna and the Marches could not join the militia, as the opposition government was immediately recognized by Italy.

[better source needed] On the night of 30 September, near midnight, the opposition council and a few supporters occupied an abandoned factory in the town of Rovereta, Serravalle on the Italian border.

[1] Italy recognized the provisional government and Italian Carabinieri protected the three sides of the factory that sat in their territory.