Consensus “is perfectly acceptable as a principle, but laws that leave too much room for individual free interpretation are laws that risk clogging the courts and fueling conflict rather than reducing violence.” The deputy prime minister and League leader said as much Matteo Salviniregarding the termination in the Senate of changes to criminal law provisions regarding criminal acts of sexual violence.
The law of consent, Salvini’s words
The minister added: «The initial agreement, informed and current, as written, leaves room for personal revenge, on the part of women and men, who without any harassment will use unclear rules to take personal revenge that will clog the courts».
The deputy prime minister highlighted the work of Senator Giulia Bongiorno, “an expert and advocate for many women victims of violence and abuse”.
What Bongiorno said
“I have given a deadline of Monday to appoint experts who will be audited.
I asked the group so that non-experts wouldn’t be heard, that’s why I wanted technicians. Second, it is prohibited to exceed two people per group. This will be an expert hearing in a short cycle”, said Judiciary Committee president Giulia Bongiorno speaking to reporters in the Senate.
Roccella Intervention
“There are no obstacles” on the part of the League, “the consensus already exists in our jurisprudence, through the decision of the Supreme Court. So the principle already exists. What we want is also written into law, declared, but it is already an active principle in our jurisprudence,” said the Minister of Family, Maternity and Equal Opportunities, Eugenia Roccella, on the sidelines of the conference “Demographic Reconstruction. The Apennines are central between depopulation and post-relaunch earthquake”, at the Palazzo Giustiniani, in Rome. «Laws will be created. I also made a personal commitment to this,” he added.
Regarding the law on femicide approved yesterday, “which is truly revolutionary, has historical significance, has been discussed at length, was proposed last March and is a government law, while the law on consent is a law of parliamentary initiative, so the prerogative of parliament must also be protected”. Roccella then reiterated that “we have discussed a lot about the femicide law, but it has been changed. But regarding the law of consent, we are racing to try to get the law to be voted on symbolically on November 25. But we have always said that resistance to violence is not only carried out on the canonical days, November 25 or March 8, but is carried out every day. Here it is: it is important for me to reach a truly agreed agreement and do it calmly within the time frame required by parliament.”
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