The Senate had already made a similar call.
The motion, which saw the abstention of the nationalist
opposition Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, commits the
government to promptly initiating, via the competent
institutions, the necessary assessments in order to confer
Italian citizenship on Patrick George Zaki .
It also urged the government to keep monitoring Zaki s case and
his conditions of detention.
The government subsequently issued a favourable opinion on the
motion.
Centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Enrico Letta, whose
party was among the overwhelming majority backing the motion,
tweeted the House has also approved the motion to grant
Patrick Zaki citizenship. Now that parliament has pronounced in
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