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Gilda Sportiello breastfed her son Federico in the Chamber of Deputies<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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A baby took a seat in the Italian parliament for the first time ever on Wednesday, when lawmaker Gilda Sportiello breastfed her son Federico in the Chamber of Deputies, triggering a round of applause from fellow members.<\/p>\n
The event would be more commonplace in many countries, but was underlined by the acting lower-house speaker in traditionally male-dominated Italy.<\/p>\n
“It’s the first time, with the backing of all parties. Best wishes to Federico for a long, free, and peaceful life,” said Giorgio Mule as he chaired the parliamentary session.<\/p>\n
“Now we’ll speak quietly.”<\/p>\n
In November last year a parliamentary rules panel gave the go-ahead to women lawmakers to enter the chamber with their children and breastfeed them up to the age of one.<\/p>\n
“Too many women stop breastfeeding ahead of time, not by choice, but rather because they are forced to return to the workplace,” said Sportiello, from the left-leaning 5-Star Movement.<\/p>\n
Giorgia Meloni took office in October as Italy’s first woman prime minister, but around two-thirds of the country’s lawmakers are men.<\/p>\n
While the event on Wednesday was a first for Italy, 13 years ago Licia Ronzulli, now a senator in the centre-right Forza Italia party, breastfed her daughter in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.<\/p>\n
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