At the origins of the Italian Parliamentary Antimafia Commission

Abstract

The article traces the events between the 1950s and 1960s that led Parliament to deal with the Mafia and then to approve a Commission of Inquiry, taking up a proposal that the Sicilian left had been pursuing since 1948. It highlights the delay with which the Italian Republic equipped itself in combating the problem, outlining the genesis of an institution destined to become semi-permanent, that is, to be renewed almost every legislature.