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Civil rights in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022 · based on 2,454,718 parliamentary interventions

The theme of civil rights appears in 8,075 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1978, with 538 interventions.

This page summarises the main figures. The full search, with the complete text of every intervention and downloadable results, is available in the corpus search engine.

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Trend over time

1948: 13 interventions1949: 21 interventions1950: 41 interventions1951: 20 interventions1952: 48 interventions1953: 23 interventions1954: 16 interventions1955: 12 interventions1956: 15 interventions1957: 14 interventions1958: 10 interventions1959: 11 interventions1960: 14 interventions1961: 24 interventions1962: 32 interventions1963: 25 interventions1964: 15 interventions1965: 16 interventions1966: 37 interventions1967: 80 interventions1968: 29 interventions1969: 516 interventions1970: 396 interventions1971: 90 interventions1972: 27 interventions1973: 36 interventions1974: 80 interventions1975: 107 interventions1976: 534 interventions1977: 402 interventions1978: 538 interventions1979: 95 interventions1980: 211 interventions1981: 214 interventions1982: 194 interventions1983: 150 interventions1984: 130 interventions1985: 111 interventions1986: 108 interventions1987: 106 interventions1988: 216 interventions1989: 196 interventions1990: 101 interventions1991: 69 interventions1992: 84 interventions1993: 70 interventions1994: 30 interventions1995: 43 interventions1996: 23 interventions1997: 58 interventions1998: 53 interventions1999: 88 interventions2000: 86 interventions2001: 53 interventions2002: 128 interventions2003: 135 interventions2004: 91 interventions2005: 99 interventions2006: 154 interventions2007: 191 interventions2008: 73 interventions2009: 150 interventions2010: 62 interventions2011: 108 interventions2012: 64 interventions2013: 184 interventions2014: 202 interventions2015: 148 interventions2016: 176 interventions2017: 48 interventions2018: 42 interventions2019: 101 interventions2020: 90 interventions2021: 65 interventions2022: 33 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning civil rights in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
MARCO PANNELLARadicali215
MAURO MELLINIRadicali172
EMMA BONINORadicali117
ADELE FACCIORadicali107
MARCO BOATORadicali59
ALDO BOZZIPartito Liberale Italiano59
CARLO TASSIMovimento Sociale Italiano57
MASSIMO TEODORIRadicali54
ROBERTO CICCIOMESSERERadicali50
AGOSTINO GREGGIDemocrazia Cristiana43

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Radicali876
Democrazia Cristiana785
Movimento Sociale Italiano570
Partito Comunista Italiano423
Partito Democratico400
L'Ulivo317
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà314
Partito Socialista Italiano219
Partito Liberale Italiano186
Lega Nord171

How these figures were obtained

The figures come from a full-text search over the entire corpus of verbatim reports of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 1948 to 2022, queried with divorzio OR aborto OR "unioni civili" OR "diritti civili" OR omosessuali. Each intervention is counted once even if the theme occurs several times within it. The source of the texts is the ItaParlCorpus dataset by Joshua Cova (Harvard Dataverse), which collects 2,454,718 interventions and more than 470 million words. Texts from the earliest legislatures come from OCR scans and may contain recognition errors.

The other themes analysed

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