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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

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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]

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^ "Il Blog di Beppe Grillo". www.beppegrillo.it. Archived from the original on 2006-03-29.
^ 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.

List of political scandals in Italy

New findings

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