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,
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