Italy has recognised same-sex civil unions since 5 June 2016,providing same-sex couples with almost all of the legal protections enjoyed by opposite-sex married couples,excluding joint and stepchild adoption rights. A bill to allow such unions,as well as gender-neutral registered partnerships,was approved by the Senate on 25 February 2016 and the Chamber of Deputies on 11 May and signed into law by the Italian President on 20 May of the same year. The law was published in the official gazette the next day and took effect on 5 June 2016. Before this,several regions had supported a national law on civil unions and some municipalities passed laws providing for civil unions,though the rights conferred by these civil unions varied from place to place.
Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa is an Italian politician who is serving as president of the Senate of the Republic since 13 October 2022. He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of President of the Senate,the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic.
Maria Elisabetta Alberti,known by her married name as Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati,is an Italian lawyer and politician,serving as Minister fo Institutional Reforms since 2022. She was President of the Italian Senate from 2018 to 2022. She was the first woman ever to have held this position. Casellati is a long-time member of the liberal-conservative party Forza Italia and served as Undersecretary of Health and Justice in previous governments. In 2022,she was nominated as candidate for President of Italy by the centre-right coalition.
Democratic Centre is a centrist,Christian leftist and social-liberal political party in Italy. Most of its members,including its leader Bruno Tabacci,are former Christian Democrats.
Gian Marco Centinaio is an Italian politician for Lega,serving as Vice President of the Senate of the Republic. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Tourism in the Conte Cabinet from 1 June 2018 to September 2019.
Article One,officially Article 1 –Democratic and Progressive Movement,was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
Pierpaolo Sileri is an Italian politician,surgeon and academic professor and since 13 September 2019 Deputy Minister of Health in the government of the Italian Republic.
Dario Stefano is an Italian politician. Graduated in Economy,Stefano is a member of the Apulian division of the General Confederation of Italian Industry and taught Economics and Industrial Accounting at the University of Salento.
Marco Marsilio has been President of Abruzzo since 23 February 2019.
The 2020 Italian by-elections were called to fill seats in the Parliament that became vacant after the 2018 general elections. In 2020,by-elections were held for the Chamber of Deputies the Senate of the Republic.
Paola Taverna is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement,who has been a member of the Senate of the Republic since the 2013 Italian general election. In March 2018,she was elected Vice-President of the Senate.
Giuseppe Mangialavori is an Italian politician. He is a senator of the Republic of Italy and a member of the Legislature XVIII of Italy. He has been Regional Coordinator of Forza Italia in Calabria since March 2021.
Europeanists is a political party in Italy. Amid a government crisis triggered after Matteo Renzi announced that he would revoke Italia Viva's support to the government of Giuseppe Conte,Europeanists formed on 27 January 2021 as a component of a joint parliamentary group in the Italian Senate,with the aim to support Conte's cabinet.
Rosa Silvana Abate is an Italian politician who has been a Senator from Calabria for the Five Star Movement since 2018.
Tiziana Nisini is an Italian politician from Lega Nord. She has been State Secretary at the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies since March 2021.
Cecilia D'Elia Riviello is an Italian politician who has sat in the Chamber of Deputies since winning the 2022 Rome Trionfale by-election,which was triggered when Roberto Gualtieri resigned after being elected Mayor of Rome.
Emanuele Dessì is an Italian politician who has served in the Senate of the Republic between 2018 and 2022.
Sabrina Ricciardi is an Italian politician for the Five Star Movement,who has been a member of the Senate of the Republic since the 2018 Italian general election.
Gilberto Pichetto Fratin is an Italian politician who is the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security of the Meloni government since 22 October 2022.
