"Are you pregnant? Resign", controversy over the phrase of the FdI councilor

The center-right majority rejects the motion with which the Democratic Party requested the possibility of participating remotely in the City Council for pregnant women at risk and new parents and there is controversy in Treviglio, the second municipality in the province of Bergamo by number of inhabitants. The trigger, according to what the Democratic group leader Matilde Tura denounces on social media, are the words of the FdI councilor Silvia Colombo.

"In life there are priorities, if one holds the office of city councilor, participation must come first - said the FdI representative -. Then in life good things happen like the birth of a child or changing jobs or bad things like illness, then perhaps one needs to reconsider one's priorities, at that point one needs to resign".

"I believe that the task of politics and institutions - we are approaching March 8 - is to concretely remove all the obstacles, large or small, that especially women still have today in giving their contribution to society, in the workplace, in politics, in all sectors - is the reply of the Pd group leader - I am sincerely sorry that this opportunity has not been seized, especially by parties that make the issue of birth rate and extended family and massive electoral propaganda, and that the discussion has unfortunately degenerated into considerations and statements that make us reflect on how much still needs to be done from this point of view".

"I would like to know Giorgia Meloni's opinion on a topic of this type since we are talking about Fratelli d'Italia". This is the ironic comment of Pierfrancesco Majorino, Pd group leader in the Lombardy Region, on the rejection by the center-right majority of the Municipality of Treviglio of the Pd motion that asked for the possibility of participating remotely in the City Council for pregnant women at risk and new parents.

"It's embarrassing, I didn't want to believe it - added Davide Casati, regional councilor of the Democratic Party and head of delegation in the Welfare commission -. It demonstrates a medieval and retrograde vision, because not allowing a woman who is pregnant or with a risky pregnancy or in the first months of maternity to follow the work remotely where she can intervene and exercise her right to vote is truly inconceivable". "In the face of slogans for parenthood and family policies - added Casati -. We are completely at opposite ends of the spectrum. I hope that the Fdi city councilor apologizes, also for a speech she prepared and read. It was not an improvised speech, but thought out and reasoned. I also hope that the Treviglio administration corrects its aim, perhaps in a future session. It would be a good example for everyone".