thus the League changes on lgbt rights (and why the “Francesca effect” weighs)- Corriere.it

There is the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia, decidedly the most liberal of the League, who has been accelerating for some time on ethics and civil rights. A change of course that, by now, is hardly news anymore. It is a choice of civility, underlines the president, commenting on the resolution of the regional council, in the wake of his mantra: Ethics must stay out of politics.Because, as al Courier,
even the issues of the end of life, of the rights of the person must be addressed, not left to the left. An acceleration that is not taken for granted, especially the latter on the sex change center which will be opened at the Padua University Hospital,
who somehow also had to overcome various perplexities on the part of the Brothers of Italy. But to affect, as Zaia himself explained to Gazzettino, was also his personal experience on the subject of sexual identity: I know two people who have taken this path and I saw them in difficulty already in the orientation phase – he says -. It is no coincidence that I have also dedicated a chapter of my book Pessimists Don’t Make Fortune to this theme. We wanted to make up for lost time.

And extra-political factors also seem to have an influence on this change of perspective in the Northern League’s orbit. In fact, it has not escaped many how Salvini has revised his barricading tones on rights. Not that the leader of the League has abandoned his key battles, but it is true that more than one corner has been rounded. The reason? Those who know him well explain that the relationship with his girlfriend Francesca Verdini influenced, and not a little, on this revision of tones. The daughter of Denis, former plenipotentiary of Berlusconi, has a very open mind on the LGBT front and on civil rights in general. The distances between Matteo and me on many issues are less than they seem — explained Verdini interviewed by Today

—. We are both sensitive to rights, such as lgbtq+ rights, only that as I am not the leader of a conservative party I don’t have to compromise when I take a position.

The League’s principle of metamorphosis seems to have also extended to other exponents, such as the former minister Gian Marco Centinaiothat during a comparison (su A7) with Senator Ivan Scalfarotto (Italia viva) on the bill to establish egalitarian marriage, he replied as follows:
The center-right will evaluate the proposal and then decide. Not the right, but the center-right – Centinaio replied -. In 2016 I made the barricades against civil unions… But I think society is moving forward. Scalfarotto is right: perhaps ideology should be removed from certain things. The art of politics find the right mediation.