The outgoing Italian government has announced a new plan to help grant and protect equal rights for LGBT Italians as far-right politician Giorgia Meloni prepares to become the new prime minister of Italy.
This after Italy’s far-right won the country’s Sept. 25 election. Georgia Meloni represents the post-fascist party “Brothers of Italy,” and ran on defending “traditional family values” and standing up to the “gay lobby.”
In a statement to Reuters, Equal Opportunities Minister Elena Bonetti said that they “weren’t very ideological,” when drafting the strategy but “were very concrete.”
The “National LGBT+ Strategy 2022-2025,” which passed on Oct, 6. is a 30-page plan that seeks to tackle the discrimination LGBT people face in schools, hospitals, prisons, universities and the general workplace. The text recommends that the government monitor homophobic language in media, that teachers and police officers undergo LGBT sensitivity training and that anti-LGBT discrimination clauses are added to national labor agreements.
Representatives for the “Brothers of Italy” party have come out to object to the plan, arguing that it’s wrong for an outgoing government to commit an incoming one to a multi-year strategy.
Georgia Meloni, leader of Italy’s nationalist party, is set to become the country’s first female prime minister when taking office.