Yesterday in Pordenone the mayor of the city Alessandro Basso (Brothers of Italy) and Loris Bazzo, mayor of Carlino (Udine) of the League, joined together in a civil ceremony .
This is the first historic civil union in Italy between two incumbent mayors. The ceremony was officiated by Mayor Emeritus Alvaro Cardin, 90, a leading figure in the local Christian Democrat party in the 1980s and 1990s.
Several politicians were invited, Tgcom reports.
Among the first to comment on the union was Matteo Renzi, father of the law on civil unions which was strongly contested by the League and FdI .
"Alessandro is a mayor of the Brothers of Italy party. Loris is a mayor of the League. Yesterday they joined forces in Pordenone using the law we supported ten years ago—even at the cost of a vote of confidence—and against which Brothers of Italy and the League attacked, mocked, and insulted me ," the former prime minister and leader of Italia Viva wrote on social media.
"Life goes like this: when you make a real reform, you lose votes. The polls go down. People criticize you. But thanks to those reforms, the country is making progress. Alessandro and Loris are my political adversaries, but they deserve all the happiness in the world. Long live the newlyweds. And long live politics when it has the courage to pass laws that truly matter," Renzi concluded.
(Unioneonline)
