Gender equality takes effect in 2019

P(ANSA) – Rome, April 9 – The Lower House on Wednesday approved a bill that will ensure gender equality in the lists of Italian candidates for future European elections.BRThe measure, which was approved by the Senate in March, will not take effect in time for next month’s vote to select new representatives to the European Parliament.BRInstead, it will be effective for the next elections after that, which are set for 2019.BRThe bill is the result of a deal between Premier Matteo Renzi’s centre-left Democratic Party (PD), its junior partner in government, the New Centre Right (NCD), plus Silvio Berlusconi’s opposition centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party.BRIt passed in the Lower House with 338 votes in favour, 104 against and 29 abstentions, all of them from the anti-immigrant Northern League.BRA series of amendments to ensure gender equality in a separate bill for a new system in Italian general elections were rejected before it cleared the Lower House in March.BRRenzi has said it may be possible to return to the issue of introducing minimum quotas for women members of the Italian parliament during the election bill’s passage through the Senate.BRThe amendments were rejected after FI said it was against the so-called “pink quotas” as it considered them unconstitutional – even though many female lawmakers in the centre-right party were in favour.BR/P
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