Italy’s rape law stalls as Matteo Salvini claims it could be used for ‘vendettas’
Parliament delays debate over law defining sex without consent as rape, after comments by far-right deputy PM
Italy’s parliament has delayed a debate over a landmark law that would define sex without consent as rape amid a rift within the ruling coalition.
The measure, the result of a rare pact between the far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, and her main political opponent, the centre-left leader, Elly Schlein, passed in the lower house last week and had been expected to get final approval in the senate this week.