Italy’s Senate has voted against a bill that would have made violence against LGBTQI people, women and people living with disabilities, a hate crime.Of the 315 members in the Senate, around 135 senators voted in favour of the bill.
But that was not enough as 154 senators voted to block any further debate on the bill that would have provided more protections for LGBTQIA+ people.“The bill is dead,” Centre-Left MP Pina Picierno told Reuters, adding that the vote against the bill was “one of the worst pages in the history of the Italian republic”.The bill was introduced by and named after Centre-Left MP Alessandro Zan in the lower house in May 2018 to counter the growing number of homophobic and transphobic hate crimes that were happening in.
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