List of political scandals in Italy explained

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

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]

See also

• Political alienation
• Apoliticism
• Political apathy
• Protest vote

Notes and References

1. Web site: Il Blog di Beppe Grillo . www.beppegrillo.it . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060329122702/http://www.beppegrillo.it/partiti_puliti.php . 2006-03-29.
2. Buonomo. Giampiero. Come si può diventare parlamentari senza poter essere eletti consiglieri comunali. Diritto&Giustizia Edizione Online. 2006. 2016-04-09. 2012-08-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20120801002834/http://www.questia.com/projects#!/project/89404050. dead.