A platform for monitoring and lobbying on LGBTI issues aimed at political parties, their candidates, and elected officials.
“Osservatorio Politico” is an initiative that aims to consolidate Arcigay's positive experience in 2014 with the #cominciatu campaign in the context of the 2014 European elections. The platform is currently inactive, but Arcigay's goal is to reinstate it on a national level.
The gap between society and the party/political system is well known, and particularly regarding LGBTI issues and secularism, it is a huge gap, bridged only sporadically and always with delay. This is also true for the rights of LGBTI families in Italy, which were only partially achieved through Civil Unions, the last straw in Western Europe's history, and only after no longer ignorable pressure from society itself, but also from the judicial system and European institutions themselves.
Bridging this gap is the goal of Osservatorio Politico, an initiative that aims to force and train politicians to be accountable for what they say and don't say, what they do and don't do, on LGBTI issues, so that everyone can take responsibility.
Osservatorio Politico will therefore be a platform that, following the model of the #cominciatu campaign of 2014, will permanently allow:
- monitor and make public the positions and actions of individual candidates and elected officials from all parties, and of the parties themselves, both during and after the elections, on LGBTI issues;
- articulate online pressure actions both on individual candidates and elected officials, as well as on parties;
- give society (and the electorate) the opportunity to express their opinions on candidates and elected officials and on the various parties, regarding their positions and their actions on LGBTI issues.
LGBTI Policy Observatory currently does not have funding for its implementation. The #Comciatu campaign was funded in 2014 by the Open Society Initiative for Europe – Open Society Foundations.
