Deputy PM and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini was interior minister when the decree was passed to stop ID cards referring to ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent 2’ in order to accommodate for same-sex parent families.
A couple formed by two women with a child appealed against the decree, demanding that the minor’s ID show they are both the legal parents, so it reflects the true composition of their family.
Their petition was upheld by the court of first instance and the court of appeal has now confirmed that ruling.
Salvini complained about the use of the term ‘parent’ on ID cards as an example of political correctness going too far.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni did too when she was in opposition, famously railing against the ‘parent one, parent two’ phenomena in a speech in 2019.
“I am a woman,” she stated.
“I am a mother.
“I am Italian, I am Christian.
“You will not take that away from me!”
Salvini on Thursday called the appeals court verdict “wrong”, saying it was “absurd and reprehensible to cancel the words mum and dad.”
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