The controversy does not cease after the filing of the Zan bill in the Senate, sunk, one year after the approval of the Chamber, by the "trap" requested by the Lega and Fratelli d'Italia.

154 votes in favor, 131 against, and two abstentions: thus the word was put an end to an obstacle course made of obstruction, postponements, meetings, clashes, mediation attempts between for and against that held court at Palazzo Madama from spring to autumn.

The vote, which took place by secret ballot, was greeted by a long applause from the triumphant center-right who said he was ready to "start from scratch".

The bill, which contains measures to prevent and combat discrimination and violence based on sex, gender or disability, can no longer be proposed again and a new bill with a similar theme will have to wait six months to be dealt with in the Senate. These are the rules. The same that led President Elisabetta Casellati to give the green light to the secret vote.

THE VOTE - There were 288 senators present in the Chamber for the vote and 287 voters, 23 votes that decreed the defeat of Pd, M5s and Leu. And if in the dem house there were at least 140 votes in favor, "at least 16 are missing", explain Pd sources in the Senate, who point the finger above all against the Renzians of living Italy.

THE REACTIONS - For Alessandro Zan, father of the bill, what happened at Palazzo Madama makes "the political picture clear", with "Italia viva" which "started flirting with the center right, with the League. it was the change and Draghi's government arrived. Renzi's party took it into his head that he wanted to be the balance of the Senate. But maybe they didn't realize what they were doing ".

"The Zan Bill was sunk by those who demanded a secret vote and a head-on collision without having the numbers", the lapidary comment by Davide Faraone, leader of Italia Viva in the Senate.

"Better the stop of a crap", said the League player Roberto Calderoli gloating for the victory of which the paternity is registered for having bet on the "trap". "The supporters of the Zan Bill" should have expected "the stop, he later added." Instead they did what he expects to have the parachute and instead took a backpack, full of cans of canned meat. Because you can even go down by one or two votes ... But here it was 23 ".

"Defeat the arrogance of Letta and the 5Stelle", the exultation of the Northern League leader Matteo Salvini, while Enrico Letta underlined how in this way they "stopped the future and brought Italy back with their inguacchi".

Those who rejoice in this sabotage today should give an account to the country "the words of the M5s president Giuseppe Conte, while for the foreign minister Luigi Di Maio it is" shameful "that the Zan bill was" swept away, in the secret of the urn ". According to the leader of FdI Giorgia Meloni "the first to have buried the law are its own signatories, Zan in the lead" and defines "the accusations of Letta, Conte and the left as pathetic." The leader of Fi in the Senate, Anna Maria Bernini , accuses the Left of only wanting to "bully" without a real interest in a negotiation.

In the meantime, rags fly also among the allies: The "M5s has trusted the experience of the Democratic Party, this is the result", commented Alessandra Maiorino (M5s). Loredana De Petris, senior senator from Leu speaks of "dress rehearsals for the Quirinale", suggesting that the problem of snipers will recur very soon.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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