Short divorce: the first yes
Some concerns before the vote, such as the amendments presented by Lega and Radicali. The former wanted to suppress the proposal, while the latter wanted to shorten the time for the couple's final separation even further.
The Italian legislation, the result of the 1970s, is today one of the most restrictive in Europe: in Sweden the divorce by consensus is immediate, in Spain it is granted within two months, in France between three and six months, in Great Britain within six months and in Germany it starts after a year of separation.
The Italian law currently in force instead provides for two sentences and a three-year separation period, originally conceived as a cooling-off period, which often gets longer due to bureaucratic practices, hearings and slow justice times. Already in 2003 the DS presented a proposal to reduce the minimum period of separation and divorce faster but, despite the subsequent changes that limited its scope, it was rejected by a "transversal alliance of center-right and center-left Catholics.
The current proposal, the result of an agreement between PD and PDL, provides that divorce can be granted within one year in the absence of children or if they are of age, within two years in the presence of minor children.
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