Who could have predicted that Philippe Bas, LR senator from La Manche, was going to offer an unexpected landing ground to Mathilde Panot, Mélenchonist deputy, author of a bill to include abortion in the Constitution?
It is however the coup de theater which occurred Wednesday evening in the Senate.
On November 24, the National Assembly voted by 337 votes to 32 for a constitutional bill
“aimed at protecting and guaranteeing the fundamental right to voluntary termination of
pregnancy”.
Among the voters: the entire left, two-thirds of the majority, one-third of the RN and 13 LR deputies.
Overwhelming majority, but useless without Senate vote.
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For a proposal of parliamentary origin, there is no need for three-fifths in Congress, a simple vote conforming to the simple majority opens the way to a referendum.
However, in October, the Senate had already rejected a neighboring PPL.
Supporters or opponents of this project, everyone therefore expected the same rejection of the PPL Panot.
It was…
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