No PD-League deal on civil unions

(ANSA) - Rome, February 9 - The ruling center-left Democratic Party (PD) and the opposition rightwing Northern League (LN) no longer have a deal to cut amendments to the government's civil unions bill now in its first Senate reading, sources said Tuesday. The Northern League said last week it would cut 4,500 of its amendments, leaving about 500 of them, in a deal with the PD which envisaged its withdrawal of two so-called 'kangaroo' amendments that cancel out all similar amendments. A meeting between Senate whips from the two parties has been adjourned, the sources said.