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Eugene

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Sun Feb 21, 2016, 05:39 PM Feb 2016

Italian PM warns he may call confidence vote over same-sex unions

Source: Agence France-Presse

Italian PM warns he may call confidence vote over same-sex unions

Agence France-Presse in Rome
Sunday 21 February 2016 20.00 GMT

The Italian premier, Matteo Renzi, warned he may call a high-stakes confidence vote in his government to try to break a parliamentary deadlock over civil unions for same-sex couples.

“We are at a crossroads,” Renzi told a national assembly of his centre-left Democratic party (PD) on Sunday. “I am ready to call a confidence vote.”

In an unexpected direct intervention in a debate he has largely stayed out of, Renzi said he regarded the legislation to give same-sex couples legal recognition and protection as important as his other reforms of the labour market and the parliamentary decision-making process.

If he called a confidence vote, Renzi would run the risk of losing it and having to go to the polls just as he enters his third year since becoming premier via an internal party coup.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/21/italian-pm-matteo-renzi-warns-call-confidence-vote-same-sex-unions
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