, came to power, it has engaged in a campaign to defend “traditional” families.
and there have since been multiple cases of certificates, some of which were issued back in 2017, being challenged. Erminio Lissana, 57, lost his husband, Marco Tagliabue, 50, in August last year, when he collapsed with aRecalling how Mr Tagliabue had left on the Sunday night to start work the next day, Mr Lissana said: “In the heart of the night my phone rang and it was the Carabinieri [police] of Brescia, telling me he had collapsed and had died.
Mr Lissana, who lives in Milan and had given up his job to look after their son, said soon after his husband’s death, he had to scramble to get legal guardianship of Elia, then seven, who was born through surrogacy in the US.When Elia was born in 2015, the couple asked their lawyer for advice on how to register him in Italy.