The Senate on Wednesday approved
a bill aimed at speeding up divorces in Italy with 228 votes in
favour, 11 against and 11 abstentions.
The bill now returns to the Lower House for its third
reading in parliament.
The so-called fast-divorce bill aims to reduce the
separation period needed for a divorce in which the split is
consensual and no children are involved from three years to six
months.
On Tuesday the Senate voted to scrap a section of the bill
that would have enabled married couples wanting to
split to obtain an immediate divorce, without a period of
separation.
The bill's rapporteur, Rosanna Filippin, a lawmaker for
Premier Matteo Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party (PD),
suggested withdrawing the immediate divorce provision in order
to speed up the legislation's passage through parliament.
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