The mayor of Rome on Monday said a
pro-gay court ruling should spur parliament to pass legislation
in favor of granting new family rights to same-sex couples.
Ignazio Marino was reacting to a Lazio administrative court
(TAR) decision to rule in favor of gay plaintiffs that prefects
do not have the authority to annul the transcription in Italy of
gay marriages performed abroad.
"All this must be interpreted as a greater stimulus to
parliament; but there I am certain that the prime minister
(Matteo) Renzi - as he has said on various occasions - will
himself solicit a careful legislative process to fill the vacuum
that in Europe exists only in Greece and Italy," said Marino.
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