A report and a bill on the end of life "
by the end of summer 2023
", announced by Emmanuel Macron.
On Monday, the 184 citizens of the convention in charge of the subject delivered their conclusions.
The next day, part of the right is particularly concerned about the method used to address the issue of assisted suicide.
“
I think that all of this is a form of staging
: these citizen conventions do not represent anything at all
”, criticizes Bruno Retailleau on CNews.
“
It's democracy by chance, so it's not democracy
: 67
million French people are not represented by 180 or so people.
For his part too, François-Xavier Bellamy expressed his reluctance regarding the "
method
" used: "
I do not dispute the work that was done by all those who put it together, but if we
draw
people by lot, that amounts to saying that our institutions are not representative.
»
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The MEP, on Franceinfo, said he was "
worried
" about "
the opacity of the process of this convention
": "
If you put people in a room and you organize around it a program marked by absolutely obvious biases , at the end you get the answer you expect.
François-Xavier Bellamy also deplores that
"
over 27
days of debate, there were three hours of discussion with caregivers and not a single visit to a palliative care center
"
.
Bruno Retailleau pointed out the need for an “
ethics of fragility
”.
"
We measure the quality of a civilization by the care we provide to the most fragile
," said the leader of the LR senators.
“
I am not definitive, but I fear that killing is an anthropological break.
I think it's best to reach out.
»
