by In Trieste
Italy’s senate voted down a bill that was to make violence against LGBTQ+ people and disabled people, as well as misogyny, a hate crime.
The senate voted by 154 to 131 in a secret ballot on Wednesday afternoon to halt debate on the law, approved in November by the lower house of parliament.
The motion to block the so-called Zan bill – named after the center-left Partito Democratico (PD) politician and gay rights activist Alessandro Zan – was put forward by right-wing parties Lega and Fratelli d’Italia (Fdl).
The Zan bill was backed by the PD and the populist Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S), among others, but the Lega party described it as “divisive and ideological.”
After the result of Wednesday’s vote was announced, right-wing senators broke into wild applause in scenes widely condemned by “disgraceful” and “ignoble”.
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