 After Togliatti and the Communists entered the Badoglio cabinet, taking the oaths of loyalty to Umberto in the so-called "Svolta di Salerno" ("Salerno turn"), the leaders of the other anti-Fascist parties felt they no choice, but to join the cabinet as to continue to boycott it might lead Italy to being open to Communist domination.The other parties entered the cabinet on 22 April 1944 in order to preempt the Communists who joined the cabinet on 24 April.The Christian Democratic leader Alcide De Gasperi believed in 1944 that a popular vote would ensure a republic immediately, and sources from the Vatican suggested to him that only 25% of Italians favored continuing the monarchy.