Italian lawmaker Michela Marzano
has said she is quitting Premier Matteo Renzi's centre-left
Democratic Party after a bill regulating civil unions, including
same-sex ones, was watered down before winning definitive
approval on Wednesday.
In an letter published on the site of daily newspaper La
Repubblica and her Facebook page, she said the move was linked
to the dropping of the stepchild adoption provision and the
elimination of references to the family in the bill.
The stepchild adoption provision would have allowed gays
the ability to adopt their partners' biological children.
She said that the dropping of these parts of the bill were
"not just difficult to accept, but also to justify publicly".
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