(ANSA) - Rome, February 4 - Forty conservative Senators
announced Thursday they will file a Constitutional Court appeal
alleging their parliamentary rights were violated during debate
of the government's civil unions bill regulating gay
partnerships.
The lawmakers said Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso from the
ruling Democratic Party (PD) failed to respect procedure.
The appeal was signed by Carlo Giovanardi from the New
Center Right (NCD) party, a junior member in the governing
left-right coalition, by former reforms minister Gaetano
Quagliariello, founder of an NCD splinter party called Identity
and Action (IDEA), former defence minister Mario Mauro from
Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) party, and others.
Forty Senators in civil unions Constitutional Court appeal
Conservatives allege their parliamentary rights violated