Ius Italiae, Forza Italia files the citizenship law proposal –

Forza Italia‘s bill on the «ius Italiae» was filed today in the Senate and the Chamber. It is, we read in a note from the party founded by Silvio Berlusconi, “a text that contains an innovative principle because it combines the recognition of citizenship with the actual attendance of 10 years of compulsory schooling by foreign children born or arrived in Italy by the fifth year of age”. For «the first time ever», states the press release, «an element of qualitative seriousness is therefore introduced in the procedure for recognizing citizenship which, while to date, is granted at the age of eighteen, without any verification of the actual inclusion in society and without any reference to the level of education achieved. Our proposed text is, however, strictly related to the acquisition – through a scholastic path – of those linguistic, cultural and legal elements necessary to be defined as truly ‘Italian'”.

In the Senate of the Republic, the first signatory of the law is the group leader Maurizio Gasparri, with the vice presidents Adriano Paroli and Roberto Rosso and the members of the first commission Daniela Ternullo and Mario Occhiuto. In the Chamber of Deputies, the first signatory was the group leader Paolo Barelli with the vice presidents Raffaele Nevi, Deborah Bergamini, Rita Dalla Chiesa, Francesco Cannizzaro and the members of the first commission Nazario Pagano and Paolo Emilio Russo.