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Justice in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

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

The theme of justice appears in 117,965 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1989, with 2,934 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: 1253 interventions1949: 1880 interventions1950: 1561 interventions1951: 1481 interventions1952: 1941 interventions1953: 1248 interventions1954: 1241 interventions1955: 1083 interventions1956: 1126 interventions1957: 1145 interventions1958: 879 interventions1959: 1287 interventions1960: 1141 interventions1961: 1417 interventions1962: 1324 interventions1963: 892 interventions1964: 1108 interventions1965: 1056 interventions1966: 1370 interventions1967: 1976 interventions1968: 873 interventions1969: 1743 interventions1970: 1308 interventions1971: 1325 interventions1972: 757 interventions1973: 1377 interventions1974: 1547 interventions1975: 1434 interventions1976: 1283 interventions1977: 1724 interventions1978: 1813 interventions1979: 1436 interventions1980: 2531 interventions1981: 2769 interventions1982: 2533 interventions1983: 1909 interventions1984: 2274 interventions1985: 2255 interventions1986: 2352 interventions1987: 2085 interventions1988: 2595 interventions1989: 2934 interventions1990: 2723 interventions1991: 1825 interventions1992: 1459 interventions1993: 1568 interventions1994: 895 interventions1995: 1081 interventions1996: 867 interventions1997: 1615 interventions1998: 1970 interventions1999: 1805 interventions2000: 2036 interventions2001: 1511 interventions2002: 1641 interventions2003: 1682 interventions2004: 1535 interventions2005: 1687 interventions2006: 1848 interventions2007: 1901 interventions2008: 1376 interventions2009: 1306 interventions2010: 1468 interventions2011: 1621 interventions2012: 1706 interventions2013: 1468 interventions2014: 2211 interventions2015: 1777 interventions2016: 1262 interventions2017: 1049 interventions2018: 944 interventions2019: 1359 interventions2020: 1269 interventions2021: 1481 interventions2022: 753 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning justice in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
MAURO MELLINIRadicali767
MARCO BOATORadicali580
MARIANNA LI CALZIForza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà565
MARCO PANNELLARadicali352
FRANCO CORLEONEAlleanza dei Progressisti351
VITTORIO FERRARESIMovimento 5 Stelle333
FRANCESCO PAOLO SISTOForza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà307
NICOLA MOLTENILega Nord303
CLEMENTE MANCOMovimento Sociale Italiano296
ORONZO REALEPartito Repubblicano Italiano289

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Democrazia Cristiana13,288
Partito Comunista Italiano5,946
L'Ulivo5,576
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà5,375
Partito Democratico4,636
Movimento Sociale Italiano4,614
Partito Socialista Italiano3,543
Radicali2,793
Casa delle Libertà2,676
Movimento 5 Stelle2,498

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 giustizia OR magistratura OR carceri OR "riforma della giustizia". 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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