Rape, the majority's halt on the consent bill spies the oppositions. Suspicions on the premier

The reaction of the centre-left, which has been displaced: the oppositions have left the Senate's Justice Commission and in the Chamber have asked in vain for the suspension of work on the Femicide Bill. The president of the Dem senators, Francesco Boccia, spoke of a 'serious setback with respect to a political agreement'; her counterpart in Montecitorio, Chiara Braga, asked the minister Eugenia Roccella, present in the Chamber, for an account of the situation: 'We cannot believe that Meloni has been defied by her majority'.

Michela Di Biase, who, together with her Fdi colleague Carolina Varchi, had built the bipartisan network, was the rapporteur for the PD on the measure in the Chamber of Deputies. The majority,' she said, speaking in the House, 'has debunked Prime Minister Meloni with an 'inexplicable and extremely serious volte-face: women will once again be the ones to pay the price'. For Di Biase, the 'fingerprints are clear' and lead to the League, he said while speaking at Montecitorio. It would be really serious if polemics and diatribes within the majority - or real political messages, all internal to the right - prevented our country from taking such an important step towards the protection of women's rights and dignity".

Leghist Giulia Bongiorno, head of the Justice Commission, who was called into question by Senate President Ignazio La Russa, who said he was in favour of voting yes to the consent law, defended herself: "The commitment is to improve it a little. I prefer it to be voted on the 31st rather than having it on the 25th and with a loophole'. The opposition of the League, which had also voted yes in Montecitorio, was indisputable. But even Melonians and Azzurri have turned back. In Palazzo Madama, on the other hand, a minute's silence was held for all the victims and every week, as requested by the opposition in the conference of group leaders, any women killed will be remembered

In the meantime, Istat released data on the 2024 bloodshed: 91.4 per cent of the 116 murders of women can be traced back to a 'gender' matrix. 106 of them lost their lives at the hands of men within the circle of their closest relations. Mainly within the couple. There are 62 women killed by a partner or an ex, almost all (61) of them men. Who are more victims of murder in general (211), but mostly committed by other men in fights or crime. The report also points out that most at risk of being murdered are older women between 75 and 85 years of age: their partners cannot cope with the burden of care. The report also dispels a myth, that of the foreign enemy: 93.4 per cent of Italian women are victims of Italians. For the first time, the number of orphans of feminicides is also calculated: there were 25, 17 of whom also lost their fathers. Femicide and then suicide.