Some 300 deputies from all sides, or more than half of the National Assembly, asked the Prime Minister on Friday to include on the agenda the bill authorizing euthanasia, which could not be examined. come to an end in April, in a letter of which AFP had a copy.
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Despite wide support, the bill opening a right to "
a free and chosen end of life
" by MP Olivier Falorni (Liberties and Territories group) could not be adopted in the face of thousands of amendments tabled by some elected LR officials. and a time constrained, April 8. “
It is now important to continue this parliamentary work. The French urge that everything be done in the current period to protect the living and to humanize the agony of the dying
”in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, underline these 296 deputies led by the president of the Laws Commission Yaël Braun -Pivet (LREM), his colleague “
walker
” Jean-Louis Touraine and Olivier Falorni in particular.
“
We do not think this law lends itself to an election campaign debate, as this subject elevates us all above our partisan affiliations. It seems preferable to us to organize now the desirable parliamentary work to move forward on this important social issue,
”add these deputies, including the candidate for the Elysee Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), the number one of the PS Olivier Faure and also the chairman of the Agir group Olivier Becht, an ally of the majority.
Rather than registering the rest of the articles of the bill "
in a niche of this or that group, we solemnly ask the government to kindly make parliamentary time available to the Assembly
", add these deputies to the attention from Jean Castex. "
The debate deserves to take place, there is no doubt
" but it "
needs time
" on such a "
sensitive
" subject, had estimated before the Assembly the Minister of Health Olivier Véran. However, he promised better application of the current French law, known as Claeys-Leonetti, adopted in 2016, which provides for deep and continuous sedation that can lead to death, but without active euthanasia.
"
I believe that we will have to move forward on the subject of the end of life
" but "
such a subject must necessarily be part of a fundamental societal debate on support for the end of life, on active assistance to die and on the limits to be put there
, had also declared the boss of the deputies LREM Christophe Castaner, of which more than half of the troops signed the letter to the head of government.