The discussion on the Zan Bill against homophobia resumed in the Senate after a day, yesterday, at high tension and the vote on the suspension advanced by the League, rejected by a single vote (136 contrasts against 135 in favor ). And it’s a real marathon, with 60 members talking. Impossible to finish today, the time available is too little. It seems certain that most of the senators on the list will speak in the classroom on July 20, the day on which the presentation of the amendments will expire.
The risk of a sinking of the bill sees on the one hand, at least for now, the intransigence of Pd and 5Stelle determined to bring the original text to the vote and on the other the Lega di Matteo Salvini: “If they insist on not wanting to listen , the law is dead ”declared the League’s number one.
In the debate are inserted the words of the leader of Italia Viva, Matteo Renzi, who returns to propose mediation: “If they make two changes on the theme of gender and schools, the law is made and guarantees homosexual children and transsexuals and people with disability greater protection », Renzi explained to RTL105 microphones. “So I’m about to make an agreement: this is politics, those who want to fight for principles that lead to nothing, hold conferences, but don’t make reforms.”
In the courtroom the moving speech of Forza Italia senator Barbara Masini, who recently came out. “When she understood me, my mother said, ‘I’m afraid for you,'” the senator said in the courtroom. “All parents are afraid for their children, but not all are forced to be afraid of an immature society that believes that your son or daughter may or should be more vulnerable for who they are. I wish to all of you to be able to look your loved ones in the eyes and also to those who one day will be different from your desires and to be able to say to them: ‘I have protected you from fear’ ». The Forza Italia exponent said he was in favor of the Bill. «The majority of Italians», he explained, «say they are in favor of this law even as it is, despite all the critical issues, and among these there are also center-right voters. It would be a great defeat to see once again a bill that in 25 years, every time a legislative process has been attempted, has never ended it sunk in the two branches of Parliament ».
“I wonder how it is possible for the Senate to get bogged down in a Manichean war at a time like this,” echoed her party colleague Fiammetta Modena. “With everything we have to examine, approve, we are bogged down for two weeks on a divisive issue, moreover not taking into due consideration President Draghi’s appeal to avoid divisive issues” “.
“As it is now, the Zan law will not pass, it cannot pass because it contains evident distortions”, summed up Senator Fi Paola Binetti. “The possibility that it can be approved is played out in the amendments that we will present by next Tuesday. But the proposals are really examined in the Chamber since we have not been able to do it in the Commission ».
“The truth is that behind the many exponents of the politically correct who today are fighting for this proposal, there are actually giants of finance and marketing, which promote a consumerist lifestyle intent on annihilating all forms of identity and difference, from gender to dissident thought ”, these are the words in the courtroom of the senator of the Brothers of Italy Gianpietro Maffoni. “The plan is clearly to create an army of puppets who, by commodifying their lives and making themselves profiled in all respects, go to form the archetype of the perfect consumer, canceling any personal choice”.
Today the discussion on the bill will continue until 15, when the question time will be held in the hemicycle with the Ministers Bianchi, Garavaglia and Carfagna.