• Parliament's first green light for a law against homophobia.

    Text passes to the House with 265 yes and 193 no

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05 May 2021

The government center-right

, according to what is learned, is working for a unified text against violence, an alternative to the Zan bill. It will not, therefore, be the initiative of a single party. The League announces it. 



"I have not read the text of the Lega's proposal, but on paper it seems to me an intelligent initiative to confine it to the issue of discrimination, leaving aside matters that have nothing to do with it. This does not seem homophobic to me. Removing certain issues is easier. that a synthesis can be found ". The

leader of FdI Giorgia Meloni said this

during a press conference at the party headquarters.



In the meantime, an assembly will be held next Tuesday, according to parliamentary sources

Pd senators

on the Zan bill. The dem secretary, Enrico Letta, will also participate in the assembly, explain the same sources. 



"We are not afraid to confront those who have different ideas. I want to hope that the same applies to the senators of the former Giallorossi majority", says

Andrea Ostellari, chairman of the Justice Commission of Palazzo Madama

. "Tomorrow I will present the report on the Zan bill and all the laws related to it. Then - reiterates the senator of the League - I will declare the discussion open and my colleagues will be able to meet in the forum provided for by the Constitution: the Commission. Laws are made here".



"In our country a theme of homophobic violence exists and is dramatic. There is a need for a sense of responsibility and clarity among the political forces to make an effort to find a shared text and establish certain times for approval, without resorting to the instrument of 'stonewalling ". Thus

the President of Italia Viva and Vice President of the Chamber Ettore Rosato

speaking this morning at Studio24 on Rainews. 



No to a new text.

Alessandro Zan

rejects the hypothesis of a new law against homotransphobia resulting from the synthesis of the proposals filed in the justice commission of the Senate. "Only two laws of parliamentary initiative come to an end. This is because bicameralism slows down the approval of a lot


a law. This has already been approved by a large majority of parliamentarians. It is a balanced text, a synthesis of many other texts also presented to the Senate ", Zan begins.



And adds:" Politics decide: either to approve this text and finally give a law against hate crimes to this country, or to use surreptitious arguments, such as a new text or thousands of amendments, because the goal is to bury the law. I'm not interested in these games. Let us state openly if we want to protect vulnerable people who are victims of violence. Or if you want to bury the law by using arguments that have nothing to do with the text of the law ".