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Forza's Destiny in Italy
Singer, Daniel | April 11, 1994 issue

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The political corruption scandals caused a stupendous upheaval in Italian politics. The Milan prosecutors uncovered a fantastic web of complicity between the ruling parties and big business based on kickbacks for state or municipal contracts. The system provided parties and politicians with millions, while insuring the suppliers a monopoly. The first victims of the purge were, naturally, the five parties that made up the ruling coalition. Socialist Party was wiped out altogether and the once-mighty Christian Democratic Party has been reduced to a shadow of its former self. The immediate beneficiaries were two parties outside this establishment that had no occasion to be bribed— the Northern League and the neo-Fascists.

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POLITICAL parties; POLITICAL corruption; CHRISTIAN democratic parties; FASCISM; AUTHORITARIANISM; ITALY
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