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Same-sex marriage has become a political football in Italy's elections

The so-called centre-right coalition is talking tough against Italy’s LGBTQI and immigrant communities, attacking basic rights in the name of defending the “traditional family.”

By Claudia Torrisi
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Electoral posters in Rome ahead of the vote on 4 March.

Electoral posters in Rome ahead of the vote on 4 March. Photo: Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto/Sipa USA. All rights reserved.

Ahead of Italy’s national elections on 4 March, towns and cities across the country were plastered with posters to “defend the traditional family” – an electoral slogan of the the anti-immigration and anti-LGBTQI equality right-wing party Fratelli d’Italia (FDI; Italian for “Brothers of Italy”).

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