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Energy in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

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

The theme of energy appears in 34,990 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 2022, with 1,108 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: 176 interventions1949: 377 interventions1950: 354 interventions1951: 340 interventions1952: 356 interventions1953: 228 interventions1954: 410 interventions1955: 369 interventions1956: 570 interventions1957: 562 interventions1958: 518 interventions1959: 448 interventions1960: 392 interventions1961: 565 interventions1962: 1000 interventions1963: 299 interventions1964: 608 interventions1965: 348 interventions1966: 582 interventions1967: 525 interventions1968: 422 interventions1969: 456 interventions1970: 349 interventions1971: 429 interventions1972: 261 interventions1973: 669 interventions1974: 454 interventions1975: 421 interventions1976: 328 interventions1977: 634 interventions1978: 301 interventions1979: 548 interventions1980: 821 interventions1981: 816 interventions1982: 685 interventions1983: 631 interventions1984: 649 interventions1985: 527 interventions1986: 960 interventions1987: 795 interventions1988: 709 interventions1989: 641 interventions1990: 501 interventions1991: 290 interventions1992: 192 interventions1993: 137 interventions1994: 124 interventions1995: 242 interventions1996: 160 interventions1997: 266 interventions1998: 267 interventions1999: 263 interventions2000: 396 interventions2001: 207 interventions2002: 479 interventions2003: 704 interventions2004: 488 interventions2005: 416 interventions2006: 408 interventions2007: 515 interventions2008: 640 interventions2009: 587 interventions2010: 436 interventions2011: 541 interventions2012: 492 interventions2013: 420 interventions2014: 644 interventions2015: 528 interventions2016: 439 interventions2017: 220 interventions2018: 173 interventions2019: 383 interventions2020: 237 interventions2021: 554 interventions2022: 1108 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning energy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
ERMINIO ANGELO QUARTIANIDemocratici di Sinistra162
RAFFAELE DELFINOMovimento Sociale Italiano144
EDO RONCHIDemocrazia Proletaria137
FRANCO SERVELLOMovimento Sociale Italiano113
MASSIMO SCALIAVerdi Arcobaleno111
GIANNI TAMINODemocrazia Proletaria108
DAVIDE CRIPPAMovimento 5 Stelle100
ENEA CERQUETTIPartito Comunista Italiano98
ERMETE REALACCIL'Ulivo95
GIOVANNI MALAGODIPartito Liberale Italiano84

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Democrazia Cristiana3,605
Partito Comunista Italiano3,018
Partito Democratico1,720
Movimento Sociale Italiano1,598
L'Ulivo1,588
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà1,341
Partito Socialista Italiano1,272
Movimento 5 Stelle1,012
Radicali714
Partito Liberale Italiano660

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 energia OR nucleare OR petrolio OR gas OR "fonti rinnovabili". 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.

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