Nichi Vendola Becomes A Father Editorial Photo

BARCELONA/SPAIN - OCTOBER 29, 2011: Portrait of Italian gay politician Nichi Vendola. On the end of February 2016 he has become father with his partner Eddy Testa through a surrogate mother. The former governor of the southern Italian region Puglia has become father at the end of February 2016, together with his canadian partner Eddy Testa, through an Indonesian surrogate mother who gave birth in California. Although he is catholic, he always expressed the desire to have a child. The event provoked a wave of comments on Iitalian social networks, since in the last weeks the stepchild adoptions have been removed from the proposals of law about civil rights.