Security, Morandi bridge, euthanasia, adoptions: we make increasingly discriminatory laws, we just have to

History of this week: the famous “DDL Security”, the one that increases the penalties for those who peacefully manifest, as has protested associations and activists for months, has become a decree law approved quickly and fury, completely jumping the parliamentary passage. Mattarella had to sign it, and then the UN came to say to the government that it was a discriminatory measure of the weakest and that violates human rights. It can be said: a classic case of Italian politics – the habit of using the law decrees instead of the parliament to legislateincreased during the emergency months of Covid, among other things criticized by the Quirinale for years. But it also happens when the laws are discussed in Parliament.

Tuesday the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella promulgated the so -called “Morandi law”a rule that recognizes benefits to the victims of the collapses of road or motorway infrastructures, in the wake of the collapse of the Morandi bridge, on August 14, 2018 in Genoa. Mattarella could resist the rooms but did not do it, because it is urgent to help the family members of the 43 dead for example, however he asked for changes. His objections were two: the first is that, scarce the money, on the law it is written that compensation is limited to cases of road sagging only (and not, therefore, to the collapse of a school or another public building) and of national prominent roads (and not, for example, in the case of a viaduct managed by a municipality).

The second is that The law seems to discriminate the children of victims who were linked by civil unions or coexistence compared to the children of married victims. In fact, article 2 of the law explains that compensation will go to order to: a) spouse; b) the children, in the absence of the spouse; c) the stable cohabiting “or the other part of the civil union” d) parents; e) cohabiting brothers and sisters. One wonders: no one had noticed? The text, proposed by the League but voted in a bipartisan way by Parliament, is the result of an error or is it a calculation, which derives from the ultra traditionalist vision of the family that proposes the Meloni government?

AND We are in yet another case in which we must refer to the judgments of the Constitutional Courtwhich supervises that the laws of the State are consone to the rights sanctioned by the Constitution, the first law of the Republic, the oldest, yet always the most modern of the others. The Consulta, Mattarella writes, has already equated “the rights deriving from stable coexistence and civil unions to those based on the marital bond”. Translated: There are no children of Serie A or Serie B. The Constitutional Court, moreover, has already intervened in various cases to extend to the “de facto cohabiting” protections equal to those of the “spouse”.

Or we could mention The famous sentence 242 of 2019, the one on DJ Fabowhich made the use of assisted suicide possible for some types of patients, while Parliament does not legal and serve long legal battles to be recognized by self -determination rights. Or that of October 2024 which demolishes the ban on affectivity in prison, “a real cultural revolution in the very conception of the prison sentence” according to the Antigone association. But there is also the recent sentence 33 of the Court in which it is declared that even individual people can adopt foreign minors in situations of abandonment. Luckily there is the Constitution, it comes to say. But we just have to cry, too.