On the plane bringing him back from Rome, after his interview with Pope Francis, Emmanuel Macron confided that he did not like to hear the word "euthanasia" used to talk about his plans for the "end of life".
A word too technical in his eyes for a human reality, a word too brutal for an intimate moment calling for gentleness, understanding and compassion.
Corollary of semantic temperance, chronological prudence: the Head of State renounces making the end of 2023 the deadline for adopting a law.
There are two ways of understanding this presidential concern.
His aversion to any hysterization of the debates is sincere and old.
We remember that the candidate Macron, in 2017, had criticized François Hollande for having stirred up the debate on marriage for all, by
“humiliating”
his opponents.
President, he claims to be respectful of everyone.
Better: to go as far as possible in the search for a consensus.
This is also why, by setting up the citizens' convention
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