Word: forlani
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Socialists are not the only party touched by corruption. An informant told investigators that Arnaldo Forlani, an ex-Prime Minister and former head of the Christian Democrat Party, had conspired with Craxi to split payoffs for government contracts. Forlani denied the charges. And members of the Italian Social Democratic Party are suspected of accepting illegal contributions. The damage wrought by the ongoing scandals may be irreparable. Italian newspaper headlines are flatly proclaiming the end of the First Republic, as Italy's postwar democracy is known. With 51 governments since 1945, it would be hard for the second republic...