List of political scandals in Italy

This is a list of major political scandals in Italy:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• 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]

References

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

• Political alienation
• Apoliticism
• Political apathy
• Protest vote