Judicialization of Politics in Italy between the First Republic and the Operation Clean Hands

Abstract

From the perspective of the microhistory, this article conducts a historical reconstruction of the events that occurred in 1992 and 1993 in Sicily, Italy, considering these facts through the premise that the judiciary operated as a supplent power by conducting judicial processes with political intentions in the context of the operation Clean Hands. In this context, I analyse the relations between both Judges Giovani Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and the investigation entitled Mafia and Public Contracts, trying to understand the social context in Palermo in those years, concerning the main social actors involved in the judicial and political scandals: business owners, judges, mobsters and politicians.