Antonello Sannino and Danilo Di Leo today will be in the City to present their demand for a civil union. They are the first to do it in Naples since it was approved Cirinnà law allowing the “marriage”, or rather civil unions, even among people of the same sex.
Sannino, 39, is the president Arcigay town . His companion, 29, is a dancer of the theater San Carlo. It has been dating for seven years now, and in September they’re going to live together, even legally formalizing their union. This morning the pair will submit the application which then will be materialized in a fortnight. It is a sort of “marriage vows” that precedes the celebration of the union fledged. Those between Antonello and Danilo will be the first “marriage” between persons of the same sex celebrated in Naples.
To accept the request the Councillor for Equal Opportunities, Daniela Villani, but also be attended by the mayor of Torre Annunziata, where Antonello and Danilo were born and raised. “The City – reads a statement issued by St James’s Palace – had established, first in Italy, the register of civil unions already in February 2012 waiting for Parliament to legislate on the matter. After the approval of Cirinnà law, l ‘ municipal government had implemented the necessary procedures and since last August 8th-sex couples wishing to apply for civil unions may submit the request. ” What was late, though, compared to other cities, like Milan and Bologna, but also to municipalities in Campania.
The procedures were initiated for weeks, for example, in San Giorgio a cremano, where the mayor George Zinn and his partner Michael Ferrante will join civilly September 24. To officiate the union of the first citizen will own the senator of the Democratic Party, Monica Cirinnà, whose name is linked to the law passed in May. And yesterday the Governing Arcigay handed over a honorary membership card to the “first gay mayor of Italy” and the companion. Also yesterday, in Avellino, there was the first civil union of the capital of Irpinia. Mayor Paul Foti has entered a homosexual couple who lived for ten years. It is a 31 year old site and a 40-year old Salerno. After the planned investigation of the request, which lasted 15 days, the couple’s union has been formalized in the presence of two witnesses and a few close friends.
Returning to Naples, the presentation of the request for Sannino and Di Leo It will take place in the council hall of Palazzo San Giacomo. The celebrations of all civil partnerships, however, will be housed in the Loggia room of the Angevin. “We would have wanted to do in Torre Annunziata, where we grew up, but then we opted for Naples, where we spend much of our day. For a long time we thought of going to live together – explains Sannino – now we have decided to legalize our union under the new law. We are the first, but i know that there are also other our friends who want to submit the application. “
In about fifteen days will be held the ceremony itself. “It will be something intimate with family and friends, but nothing confetti, flowers and carriages” jokes about the Arcigay leader. Expected even the Mayor Luigi de Magistris.
The decisions of the City is not welcomed by the “People of the family”: “We believe the major city administration choice to grant
Sala Giunta for the first celebration of marriage between persons of the same sex, “says Luigi Mercogliano, former mayoral candidate for the Pro-Life Movement was born in March from a Family day rib. “We have nothing against the possibility that people of the same sex to live their emotions freely and without discrimination – concludes Mercogliano – but we are firmly opposed to putting between civil unions and marriage.”
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