A private company to manage Padua Pride, Alessandro Zan. And for Michela Di Biase, another private company to advise companies on gender equality certification. They are the two representatives of the Democratic Party who were targeted last night on Rai Tre by “Report”, moderated by Sigfrido Ranucci.
The report does not accuse them of violating the law, but of political opportunities and even conflicts of interest: each of the two MPs founded their own company on the topics that are of primary interest to their political activity. LGBT rights for Alessandro Zan. Gender equality for Michela Di Biase.
With his “Be Stolz srl” Alessandro Zan organizes the most important LGBT festival in Italy in Padua, three months full of celebrations and activities promoting LGBT rights. The turnover of the company, of which Zan is the sole director, will be over one million euros in 2022, as regularly reported in the Montecitorio registers. Lorenzo Vendemiale speaks to Zan during the service: “Two questions about the festival. They put on a great event with sponsors, concerts, even beer and pizza… but we can say that it is a commercial event in every respect.” The PD MP shakes his head: “No, no, it is an event where everything earned is put into the initiative and therefore there is no profit whatsoever.”
Michela Di Biase is accused of having founded, before anyone else, a consulting company for the certification of gender equality: “Goal 5”. The report believes that this was thanks to her political connections, as she was the wife of Dario Franceschini, the then Democratic Party minister. Di Biase denies: “Neither personally nor on behalf of Objective Five have I ever had discussions with politicians to approve the equality certificate in the Contract Law. Also, I wasn’t in Parliament when the law was passed.”