The Senate ditches the Zan bill: ok to the "trap" with 154 yes, the Lega and FdI proposal passes
Salvini: "A response to the arrogance of the Democratic Party". Read: “The future stopped”. Renzi: "We needed an agreement before, but instead we wanted a clash in the classroom"
Skip the examination of the articles and amendments of the Zan bill, for which the process is blocked.
The Senate chamber in fact voted in favor of the so-called "trap", requested by the Lega and FdI. In favor, 154 senators, 131 against and two abstentions.
The vote, which took place by secret ballot, was greeted by applause.
The Zan bill, a bill against homotransphobia approved in the Chamber on November 4, 2020, therefore falls to the test of Palazzo Madama. And so the text of the law will return to committee no earlier than six months.
Green light, therefore, from the President of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, to the two requests not to pass to the examination of the articles of the Zan bill - the so-called "trap" - also defining "admissible" according to the regulations and the precedents the secret vote requested by senators Calderoli (Lega) and La Russa (FdI).
Strong disputes in the Chamber by Pd, M5S and Leu for the choice of Elisabetta Casellati, who spoke of a decision on the basis of "solid foundations of a legal nature".
THE REACTIONS - "The arrogance of Letta and the 5Stelle were defeated: they said no to all the mediation proposals, including those formulated by the Holy Father, associations and many families, and they drowned the Zan Bill. Now let's start again from the proposals of the League: fight discrimination by leaving children out, freedom of education, gender theory and crimes of opinion ", the first words of the leader of the League Matteo Salvini.
"They wanted to stop the future and bring Italy back", was instead the lapidary comment of Enrico Letta, secretary of the Democratic Party. And also for Giuseppe Conte, leader of the 5 Star Movement, it was "a bad day" for politics of the country.
“For months - said the number one of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi, who was not in the courtroom, but in Saudi Arabia - I asked to find an agreement to avoid making the Zan bill fail. They wanted the fight and these are the consequences. Those who argue about absences would have to deal with the 40 francs shooters. Today's responsibility is clear: and to say that for Pd and Cinque Stelle this time it was easy, easier than the times of 'O Conte o morte'. It didn't matter to know politics, it was enough to know arithmetic ".
“The League has asked for the vote of the trap, this shows that it wants to bury the law. The postponement is a bluff "said Alessandro Zan deputy of the Democratic Party and first signatory of the law. Zan had asked Casellati not to grant the secret vote that" could have killed the law ": an appeal supported by gay rights associations, first of all the Rainbow Movement.
"The numbers of the vote with which the Senate ditched the Zan text against homophobia this morning are inexorable: our political class is largely homophobic", declares Gabriele Piazzoni, general secretary of Arcigay. He continues: "The margin with which the majority of the Senate has expressed itself goes far beyond the confines of the right, the fake liberals of Forza Italia or the cynical climbers of Italia Viva. There are responsibilities also within the political forces in which militant the parliamentarians who were the first signatories of the text. In short: there is a widespread responsibility for politics, which comes out of it photographed in an implacable way. the country, the informal networks, the associations, all people of good will. Not the state, which once again turns to the other side. We thank those who fought, to all the others we deliver our shame ", concludes Piazzoni.
(Unioneonline / vl)
