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The majority face the puzzle of the end of life

2021-04-06T19:10:41.606Z


A bill to legalize euthanasia is to be examined in the Assembly this Thursday. The text is supported by many deputies


Legislate or not on euthanasia?

The subject is sensitive.

Especially as the country continues to count its deaths after a year of a global epidemic.

And if the question is not new, it will return this Thursday to the front of the stage through a bill examined in the Assembly.

Tabled by the deputy Olivier Falorni (Libertés et Territoires group), it would guarantee the right to a “free and chosen” end of life.

Except… the text could be cut short.

And for good reason: registered as part of a parliamentary niche, its examination time will be reduced to one day.

Even though 3,000 amendments must be reviewed, including 2,500 just for LR deputies who intend to fully play their power of obstruction.

Suffice to say that the exercise will fall under the impossible mission.

Sunday, in the Sunday Journal, no less than 270 parliamentarians, all political stripes, signed a platform to denounce the attitude of the Republicans.

Among them, the president LREM of the law commission Yaël Braun-Pivet, the socialist leader in the Assembly Valérie Rabault or the leader of LFI Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

And according to the count of the deputy En Marche Jean-Louis Touraine, president of the study group on the end of life, 60% of the deputies are today in favor of the text presented by Falorni, of which a very large part resulting from the majority.

Put the debate back for the presidential election?

What to put in delicacy the government which, on such a thorny subject, is less inclined to have it validated at the turn of a bill examined in a hurry.

Especially since at the top of the State, neither Emmanuel Macron, nor Jean Castex have clearly expressed the desire to move forward on this ground by the end of the mandate.

“I have the impression that they say to themselves that it is rather a presidential debate than at the end of the quinquennium.

They are not very comfortable with assuming that we can vote for this reform, ”observes a framework of the majority.

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"We must consider that this is a first step in a broader debate," recognizes the boss of LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner, also in favor of it being for example addressed at the time of the presidential election.

Same story on the side of Olivier Véran, who should speak this Thursday in the hemicycle: “The question is whether we can choose the moment and the conditions of his death.

It is an important subject which fully justifies a parliamentary debate.

But I would have preferred it to be based on expert opinion via the National Consultative Ethics Commission, and from civil society.

And that it be carried by a clear mandate given by the French, whereas the subject was, in fact, not debated during the last presidential election ”, thus estimates the Minister of Health to our newspaper, before to decide: “A few hours in the Assembly will not be enough to change the law.

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The majority torn apart

A position which could not satisfy the supporters of the text in the Assembly.

And which risks straining relations even within the majority.

Tuesday in a LREM group meeting, Jean-Louis Touraine thus asked, if the text cannot be voted on Thursday, that it be taken up by the government in the form of a bill or in a bill of the majority.

“The president has always encouraged me to keep our study group very active.

It's been a long job, three years of auditions.

We can not say that it is not ready ”, argues the deputy LREM of the Rhône, doctor by profession.

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A request also formulated by François de Rugy: "The government does not wish to table a bill on the subject, so we must take note of it, insists the deputy LREM.

It must be said that if necessary, we will put this text back on the agenda so that there is a real debate and a vote on the substance.

And it's up to the group to do it.

Here is Macron warned.

Source: leparis

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