Piedmont Region gives green light to end-of-life law
Date of the event:
On 10 November 2026 the bureau of the Piedmont Regional Council, meeting at Palazzo Lascaris, voted unanimously - including the centre-right - to admit the popular initiative bill on end-of-life care. The text, presented by the Luca Coscioni Association with 16,000 citizens' signatures, is titled «Liberi Subito» (Free Right Away) and has already been approved in other Italian regions, including Veneto, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, Umbria and Sardinia [1].
The bill's progress
With the bureau's green light, the process moves on to the regional committees before reaching the Council chamber. This is a different outcome from two years earlier, when a first attempt by the Coscioni Association failed to get the bureau's go-ahead and the debate was rejected from the outset over an alleged lack of regional competence on the matter [1].
The timing of the process remains uncertain: according to reports, the parties may wait for the outcome of the dispute between the Council of Ministers and the Veneto Region, whose end-of-life law has been challenged before the Constitutional Court. The Coscioni Association, which held a presidio (sit-in) outside Palazzo Lascaris on the day of the vote, said it was confident of the outcome, citing previous rulings by the Court [1].
Political positions
The President of the Piedmont Region, Alberto Cirio, had previously expressed support for an end-of-life law, but one falling within Parliament's competence rather than the regions' [1]. In the Regional Council, the groups' positions differ: Fratelli d'Italia is opposed, while Forza Italia and Lega are open to the idea. Lega group leader Fabrizio Ricca shook hands with activists at the sit-in, voicing satisfaction with the bureau's decision [1]. The coordinators of the Coscioni Association's Turin branch, Davide Di Mauro and Lidia Sessa, welcomed the green light [1][2].
Sources
- La Stampa — 10 November 2026
- Radio Gold — 10 November 2026