Eugenia Roccella, the appointment that reopens the civil rights front – Corriere.it

The minister
Eugenia Roccella has three delegations: the Family, Equal Opportunities and, completely new, that of Natalit. Three proxies that split public opinion in two.

You can’t hide the more than a conservative character of Roccella, she who organized the Family Day for the first time in 2007 with the intent to target the “Dico”, precursors of civil unions. And then when civil unions became law, the new minister took the front row to organize the referendum to abolish them.

For her, the family is only that of a mother and a father, a value for which he has already promised he will strive at every level. The family too often neglected and penalized, she said immediately after taking the oath at the Quirinale. And then she added: He will work to counter the demographic winter that risks stealing the future and hope of our country.

Mario Adinolfi, president of the People of the Family, rejoices for this: Eugenia a dear friend of mine: our battles have reached the heart of the state. To restart the birth, the shame of killing a child in one’s mother’s womb must be erased. I know that Eugenia Roccella will. A wind against abortion is rising in the world: let’s think about what happened in the US. Great concern for this comes from Carlo Calenda, leader of Action: Roccella in the past has taken dangerous positions on abortion, we hope that the government does not.

Actually tr the first statements made by the new minister there was one on abortion: It is not up to me, but to the Minister of Healthcut short to dribble the reporters who pursued her. During the election campaign you had openly declared: Abortion is not a right . And now, even before Adinolfi’s confirmation, even the Rainbow Families think that Roccella will also deal with abortion. Canceller all rights, says the president Alessia Crocini with concern.

All the exponents of the LGBTQ world are very worried. The voice of Alessandro Zan, dem deputy, direct: Eugenia Roccella behaves like a militant homophobic. You have made it clear that you want to abolish civil unions.

Zan, the first signatory of the bill that bears his name, adds: All the statements made so far suggest that Roccella is the Minister of Unequal Opportunities. the enemy of all rights. Cutting the judgment of Vladimir Luxuria: Appointing Eugenia Roccella as Minister of the Family and Equal Opportunities is a bit like putting Cruella Demon at the presidency of the animal protection league.

But the new minister for the family says she has new ideas in mind. You said: it is important that the family be treated with greater equity, without unloading on the family unit, and in particular on women, all the burden of care work, children and frail people. We are ready to field new ideas.

Applause from the Families Forum. The fact that there is a ministry of birth and family is a little big victory, says Luigi De Palo, the president. Who adds: During the election campaign I had proposed that Natalit be put as a proxy to the Ministry of Economy. I am sure for that Eugenia Roccella will be able to affect the demographic winter even if her ministry without portfolio.

In 2007 Eugenia Roccella organized the first Family Day to fight the “Dico”. Then Massimo Gandolfini arrived in 2015 and 2016 to organize others (and then the Family Day became a structured subject). In those years there was the problem of civil unions to be solved, now Gandolfini says. That speaking of the new minister of the Family, Equal Opportunities and Christmas, she has only words of considerable esteem. She says, in fact: I have known her for many years, and I can say that she is a great and authoritative representative of the pro life and pro family world.

Two movements that the opposition fears a lot. And
Carlo Calenda is its spokesperson: If rights are touched, the opposition will be tough and not only in Parliament. The presence of Roccella is worrying from this point of view.