List of political scandals in Italy

This is a list of major political scandals in Italy:

• Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi underage prostitution charges, 2010s
• Lockheed bribery scandals, which caused President Giovanni Leone to resign
• 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 started in the 1990s and uncovered in 2006
• Bancopoli, bank takeover-merger scandal of 2005, involving insider trading, audiotapes and political influences
• Abu Omar case
• 2014 Rome corruption scandal

See also

• Political alienation
• Apoliticism
• Political apathy
• Protest vote