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 ...