Tuscany Governor Eugenio Giani has promulgated a law granting access to assisted suicide, the regional government announced on Friday.
The legislation had been temporarily suspended after it was approved by Tuscany's regional council on February 12 following an appeal presented by the centre-right opposition.
The statutory watchdog body tasked with examining the motion rejected it, enabling the governor to promulgate the legislation.
Tuscany was the first Italian region to approve such a law which lays out how to apply for assisted suicide to local health agencies while respecting guidelines set by the Constitutional Court so that the recourse to assisted suicide does not break Italian law.
Giani has said that Tuscany will not become the new Switzerland and that strict markers laid down by the Constitutional Court in 2019 will be respected.
The requirements outlined in the 2019 sentence included the presence of an irreversible pathology, unbearable physical or psychological suffering and the patient's reliance on treatments of vital support, among others.
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