It is fierce controversy after the mayor of Sarmato, a town of 2,800 inhabitants in the Piacenza area, announced through the newspaper Libertà, on the sidelines of the Gay Pride in which she participated, that she wanted to register the child of two mothers who will be born in a few months in her municipality. Claudia Ferrari's decision was lashed out at the city councilor of Fratelli d'Italia Gloria Zanardi who speaks of "behavior contrary to the regulatory provisions (as well as jurisprudential) on the registration of minors as children of same-sex couples".
But the mayor does not give up: "in front of a child who will soon become part of our community, also as responsible for respecting citizens' rights, I feel like I have to do what is in my power to guarantee maximum protection to minors".
The LGBT pride party was also the subject of controversy over the issue of the use of the tricolor band, worn at the event by both Ferrari himself and Calendasco's colleague, Filippo Zangrandi. But the interested parties reply: "we are mayors and therefore we are the institutional representatives of the whole community, no one excluded - they say - for this reason we consciously wore the tricolor band at Pride, because in its colors all Italians are representative, both LGBTQ and heterosexual people".