15 standards were marked by the “great seal of France”, an age-old practice that is today largely symbolic. Most, like the abortion this Friday, concern constitutional revisions.
The inclusion of abortion in the supreme norm was approved on Monday March 5 during a meeting of Parliament in Congress in Versailles. Since 1958 and the advent of the Fifth Republic, 15 major texts have been officially “sealed’ The procedure is strictly symbolic insofar as their entry into force depends on their more immaterial publication in the Official Journal.