Emmanuel Macron clarifies by small touches the contours of the debate on the end of life and euthanasia, promised in the event of re-election.
The outgoing president proposed on Monday to decide it by appealing to a “citizen convention”.
If the subject did not impose itself as a campaign theme, the signals favorable to an evolution of the law accelerated with the approach of the second round of the presidential election.
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“Without sufficient palliative care, we organize the request for euthanasia”
Questioned by the French during a trip to Charente-Maritime in early April, Emmanuel Macron slipped to be in favor, in a personal capacity, of an evolution
"towards the Belgian model"
on euthanasia, in particular in the event of serious degenerative diseases, a reported a journalist from France Inter.
On April 11, Richard Ferrand, the President of the National Assembly and figure of the majority, suggested that
"the right to die with dignity"
could be the great societal reform of a second five-year term.
Last Monday, the Head of State indicated on France Culture that the convention…
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