Over 300 mayors from all over Italy arrived this morning at the Teatro Carignano in Turin to ask for more rights for same-sex families, for the event "Le Città per i Diritti". To respond to the appeal of the Piedmontese capital, Stefano Lo Russo, among others, the first citizens of Rome, Milan, Naples, Bologna, Florence and Bari: the same who recently wrote to the government, asking for an intervention to cancel the unequal treatment in the field of civil rights.
To start the mobilization, it was the stop - for Turin arrived last June and for Milan in March of this year - to the transcripts at the registry office of the children of same-sex couples. A ban that pushed the mayors to mobilize.
On stage with Lo Russo also the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, while connected in video those of Milan, Giuseppe Sala; of Bologna, Matteo Lepore; of Florence, Dario Nardella; of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi; of Bari, Antonio Decaro. Representatives of LGBTQI+ associations also spoke.
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Turin, event "The City for Rights"
"Ours is not a party proposal but a proposal of local administrators and we are convinced that, starting from today's day of mobilization, all the parties represented in Parliament will be able to take charge of what will emerge and of a legislative proposal that manages to have the numbers to be able to pass" said the mayor of the host city, Lo Russo.
"The time is ripe to remove discrimination based on sexual orientation and give the country a clear law for same-sex families, which guarantees the same rights that are recognized throughout Europe," said the mayor of the capital, Roberto Gualtieri.
"Florence is ready to move forward with this network of mayors, expanding it, also to the whole of civil society, because this is a battle of the whole society, in which the level of civilization and humanity of our country is measured" commented the mayor of the Tuscan capital, Dario Nardella, via videolink.
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Turin, event "The City for Rights"