Italian Biggest News: Civil partnerships, unanimously by the group of the Democratic Party in the Senate system of the bill

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Civil partnerships, unanimously by the group of the Democratic Party in the Senate system of the bill – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on 26 January 2016 at 11:57.
The last change is the 26 January 2016 at 14:50.

The group Democratic Party in the Senate today voted unanimously implantation bill Cirinnà on unions civil. One step to lock at least the broad outlines of the measure. “The group must have a line,” said the leader Luigi Zanda assembly of senators. “We will vote today at the conclusion of the system of the law knowing that there will be an indication of voting on amendments and others on which there will be freedom of conscience and we’ll know when we know all the amendments, also of other groups.” Each choice is therefore postponed to next Tuesday and at that point we will proceed in the light of the sun: “The senators of the Democratic Party have no interest to the secret ballot.”

Council of Europe, Italy recognizes same sex unions
Meanwhile takes the field also the Secretary General of the Council of Europe: “I encourage Italy to ensure legal recognition to same-sex couples – writes on twitter Thorbjorn Jagland – as established by the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (Oliari and others to Italy of 21 July 2015), and as happens in most of the Member States of the Council of Europe. ”

The leader Zanda reiterates: no currents
Zanda held “to make a call to all to respect the positions of each of us.” “Sometimes in the past there’s been – he explained – and may be understandable because the issue is a lot at stake. But now we are one step from the approval and must also pay attention to the words. Nothing justifies the lack of respect. Everyone has their own personal positions but we do not current. ” The chairman of the Senate dem recalled how difficult the management of the House (the bill will come Thursday, but the vote will only begin next week): “Without Rapporteur, no opinions of the government, by secret ballot and freedom of conscience, the management of ‘classroom will be complicated. We must avoid the dangers and also why it is important to limit the number of amendments. ”

pact with the opposition: nothing but kangaroo cutting amendments
On this point Zanda announced a possible “deal with the opposition: from 6000 amendments could become a few hundred ». The credit would be repeated contacts occurred yesterday with the leaders of the League and Forza Italy, which alone had presented more than 5 thousand proposed amendments. In return, the Democratic Party will not use the weapon of “super kangaroo”, Andrea Marcucci premissivo amendment of Article 1 of the bill, which would fall in one thousand amendments. The proposal will be withdrawn once the agreement between the majority and the opposition, for the timing of the law, will be signed.

Cirinnà “Now agreement closer”
It says it is confident the rapporteur to the bill, Monica Cirinnà: “After today’s vote, the agreement in the Democratic Party is closer. The senators have unanimously said they will vote yes in the final vote on the law. Remain different opinions on adoptions but we have a week to reach an understanding. “

node adoption and amendment Marcucci-Pagliari
The true knot, on which looms almost certainly free vote on all sides, is in fact one of stepchild adoption is envisaged in Article 5. In the case of Pd mediation passes for the amendment of the senators dem Andrea Marcucci and Giorgio Pagliari, that in a civil union or partnership stable adoption can be realized with permission of the court and in the interest of the child only after it has been checked, “the existence of a close link between the adopter and the adopted verified the outcome of two years of custody previously disposed towards the adopter. ” A solution that would reunite at least in part the Democrats, collecting votes in Fi and perhaps also in Rev. But that would discharge M5S and Sel.

The cattodem: also amend Article 3
Meanwhile cattodem have also requested changes to article 3 of the bill on the rights and duties of homosexual couples. Senator Stephen Hill, speaking this morning the meeting, explained that ‘Article 3 in fact authorizes the stepchild, thus making it unnecessary to Article 5. To this – he said – ask to amend also Article 3 “.

Sacconi and D’Ascola (AP): no mediation of adoptions
Meanwhile, the hard wing of Ap-Ncd rejected the sender any compromise on the stepchild.
“There are mediations adoption,” says Maurizio Sacconi and Nico D’Ascola putting his finger on the possible unconstitutionality of different routes between heterosexual and homosexual. “Either there is or there is no recognition of the” right “to homosexual parenting to which we have always opposed the primary right of children to grow up with a father and a mother. I entrust reinforced, pre-adoption, special path of adoption in court are in addition to all manner asymmetrical than those granted to a heterosexual couple. But above the boulder it is in the subversion of the natural family, the only one under the Charter aimed at procreation and education of children. And this principle is not negotiable. For this reason our amendments to Articles 3 and 5 are dedicated simply to repeal any possibility of adoption or adoption-like “.