List of political scandals in Italy

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This is a list of major political scandals in Italy:

  • Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi underage prostitution charges
  • Lockheed bribery scandals, which caused President Giovanni Leone to resign
  • Masonic lodge Propaganda Due scandal, 1980s
  • Tangentopoli, diffuse corruption cases in national politics in the early 1990s
  • Revelation of Gladio, a NATO anti-communist stay-behind network
  • Niger uranium forgeries used by George W. Bush as pretext for the 2003 invasion of Iraq
  • SISMI-Telecom scandal, domestic surveillance program
  • Bancopoli, bank takeover-merger scandal of 2005, involving insider trading, audiotapes and political influences
  • Abu Omar case
  • 2014 Rome corruption scandal

New findings

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In last years, a successful initiative of moral revolt against political malpractice, entrusted to the Internet as a blog on "the list of parties with no convicted criminals on their electoral lists",[1] has sparked the race to discover criminal records of candidates.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Il Blog di Beppe Grillo". www.beppegrillo.it. Archived from the original on 2006-03-29.
  2. ^ Buonomo, Giampiero (2006). "Come si può diventare parlamentari senza poter essere eletti consiglieri comunali". Diritto&Giustizia Edizione Online. Archived from the original on 2012-08-01. Retrieved 2016-04-09.

See also

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  • Political alienation
  • Apoliticism
  • Political apathy
  • Protest vote
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