List of political scandals in Italy

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This is a list of major political scandals in Italy:

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* 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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