Rome mayor registers kids of 2 lesbian couples

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 9 - Rome's centre-left Mayor Roberto Gualtieri on Friday registered the children of two lesbian couples despite the rightwing government saying that such registrations were no longer legal and stopping them continuing in Milan.
    The first child was a boy born in France with a French and an Italian mother; and the second a girl born in the UK to an Italo-British couple of mothers.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, which has filed a bill to make surrogacy a "universal crime" so people returning to Italy with children born to a surrogate abroad could theoretically be arrested and have their kids seized from them, said they would appeal to Rome's prefect "to make Gualtieri respect the law.
    'We will appeal to the prefect of Rome, Lamberto Giannini, because the mayor of the Capital, Roberto Gualtieri, is the first who must abide by the laws and cannot distort them for his own political convictions," said Federico Rocca, FdI Rome city councillor and chair of the transparency committee of Roma Capitale, (ANSA).