Political corruption and the 1974 Party Financing Act
Journal title PASSATO E PRESENTE
Author/s Andrea Possieri
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/126
Language Italian Pages 11 P. 15-25 File size 136 KB
DOI 10.3280/PASS2025-126002
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The article focuses on the first judicial investigations into political corruption in Italy and the so-called “Piccoli law” on party financing, approved in May 1974, which was an attempt to respond to the investigations into oil bribes in February of the same year. Despite this, the approval of the Piccoli law did not succeed in putting an end to the system of illegal financing of politics. Indeed, in the following years, a series of judicial investigations began that delegitimized the Italian political system. From this perspective, the political-judicial events of the Seventies can also be read as the first half of a political-cultural battle, as well as a judicial one, which ended only with the Tangentopoli period.
Keywords: corruption, 1974, political parties, Flaminio Piccoli, Tangentopoli
Andrea Possieri, La corruzione politica e la legge sul finanziamento dei partiti del 1974 in "PASSATO E PRESENTE" 126/2025, pp 15-25, DOI: 10.3280/PASS2025-126002