Italy’s current government, which will step down at the end of the month, adopted a new blueprint for LGBT rights just before handing the reins to a far-right government that promises to be far more conservative on social issues.
“We were not very ideological, we were very concrete,” Equal Opportunities Minister Elena Bonetti told Reuters on Friday, saying the content of the document was not controversial.
However, they immediately clashed with future prime minister Giorgia Meloni and her post-fascist Brothers of Italy party, which won the Sept. to “LGBT lobbies”.
The 30-page “LGBT+ National Strategy 2022-2025,” formally approved on October 6, aims to combat discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in schools, universities, hospitals, prisons, sports clubs and in the workplace in general.
Isabella Rauti, spokesperson for the Brothers of Italy on equal opportunities, family matters and “non-negotiable values,” said it was wrong for an outgoing interim government to commit its successor to a multi-year mandate.
Meloni, who leads a bloc that includes Matteo Salvini’s League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia party, is expected to replace Prime Minister Mario Draghi later this month. She will be the first woman to become Prime Minister of Italy.
She ruled out the possibility of reversing existing laws on LGBT rights and abortion, but also ruled out expanding them. Her party is particularly hostile to the existence of same-sex parents and ideas of “gender fluid”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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