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Terrorism in the Italian Parliament: how often it was debated

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

The theme of terrorism appears in 20,985 interventions delivered in the Italian Chamber of Deputies between 1948 and 2022. The year it was discussed most is 1980, with 1,476 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: 107 interventions1949: 57 interventions1950: 69 interventions1951: 51 interventions1952: 69 interventions1953: 59 interventions1954: 49 interventions1955: 44 interventions1956: 25 interventions1957: 34 interventions1958: 47 interventions1959: 41 interventions1960: 48 interventions1961: 106 interventions1962: 84 interventions1963: 66 interventions1964: 97 interventions1965: 76 interventions1966: 131 interventions1967: 194 interventions1968: 56 interventions1969: 158 interventions1970: 144 interventions1971: 133 interventions1972: 90 interventions1973: 221 interventions1974: 297 interventions1975: 189 interventions1976: 182 interventions1977: 381 interventions1978: 645 interventions1979: 522 interventions1980: 1476 interventions1981: 1415 interventions1982: 1310 interventions1983: 403 interventions1984: 497 interventions1985: 480 interventions1986: 426 interventions1987: 346 interventions1988: 300 interventions1989: 294 interventions1990: 440 interventions1991: 234 interventions1992: 174 interventions1993: 235 interventions1994: 72 interventions1995: 107 interventions1996: 90 interventions1997: 149 interventions1998: 194 interventions1999: 160 interventions2000: 203 interventions2001: 521 interventions2002: 491 interventions2003: 533 interventions2004: 504 interventions2005: 552 interventions2006: 442 interventions2007: 480 interventions2008: 223 interventions2009: 322 interventions2010: 230 interventions2011: 188 interventions2012: 182 interventions2013: 194 interventions2014: 322 interventions2015: 724 interventions2016: 417 interventions2017: 221 interventions2018: 182 interventions2019: 240 interventions2020: 268 interventions2021: 183 interventions2022: 89 interventions19501960197019801990200020102020
Interventions per year mentioning terrorism in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1948-2022.

Who spoke about it most

Member of ParliamentGroup Interventions
MARCO BOATORadicali483
MAURO MELLINIRadicali222
MARCO PANNELLARadicali171
ALESSANDRO TESSARIRadicali160
FRANCO FRANCHIMovimento Sociale Italiano154
MASSIMO TEODORIRadicali140
GIORGIO ALMIRANTEMovimento Sociale Italiano137
ROBERTO CICCIOMESSERERadicali129
MIMMO PINTODemocrazia Proletaria120
LUCIANO VIOLANTEPartito Comunista Italiano114

The most active parliamentary groups on this issue

Parliamentary groupInterventions
Radicali1,855
Democrazia Cristiana1,329
L'Ulivo1,281
Movimento Sociale Italiano1,195
Partito Comunista Italiano1,105
Forza Italia – Il Popolo della Libertà999
Partito Democratico895
Casa delle Libertà769
Partito Socialista Italiano526
Movimento 5 Stelle466

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 terrorismo OR terrorista OR terroristi OR "brigate rosse" OR attentato. 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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