It was 2010 when Licia Ronzulli, then senator of Forza Italia and then MEP of the PDL, brought her daughter Vittoria with her to the European Parliament for the first time. These images circulated on the Internet and on television, sparking a heated debate in Italy. Today, 13 years later, even mother deputies have managed to enter the semi-circle of the Assembly with their offspring to participate in the work of parliament: the pioneer was the five-star Gilda Sportiello, who brought this morning to the Assembly Montecitorio – an absolute first palace for her – colleague Riccardo Ricciardi’s newborn son Federico.
The announcement of the younger’s presence came from the blue Giorgio Mulè, the chair of the session, at lunch, amid the two-sided applause of the current parliamentarians: “Now we will speak in low voices … From this session our colleague Sportiello’s younger son takes the stage for the first time in the class. For the first time and the groups unanimously and he is half-circle with us. We wish Federico a long, free and peaceful life”.
Sportiello herself commented on what had happened: “There are too many women who stop breastfeeding prematurely, not voluntarily but because they have to go back to work,” she explained. Just a year ago, in November, permission from Giunta to organize the Chamber arrived at the entrance of the mother deputies during the sessions of the Chamber to attend parliamentary work with her children and breastfeed them in the Hemicycle. completion of one year.
Below is M5S sidekick Gilda Sportiello breastfeeding her son in a classroom. Ricardo Ricciardi, accompanying father of the younger with him
Source: Today IT
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