(see related) Interior Minister
Angelino Alfano said Tuesday that he had "already accounted" for
the possibility of staging a referendum to scrap a bill
regulating civil unions, including same-sex ones, if it is
passed into law. "I think that, when faced with such a difficult
parliamentary decision, it could be a rational decision to let
the people decide, if the law were perceived as an excess, in
one direction or another," Alfano told Radio Capital. Alfano is
the leader of the small New Centre Right (NCD) party, a minority
partner in Premier Matteo Renzi's governing coalition, which is
opposed to some parts of the bill. Renzi, the leader of the
centre-left Democratic Party (PD), is backing the bill.
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