It is 8 p.m. in the grounds of the Luxembourg Palace, the senators from the left and part of the right stand up to applaud.
By 267 votes to 50, the Senate has just voted in favor of the constitutional revision bill aimed at including the “guaranteed freedom of women to resort to abortion”.
Thus opening the possibility of its inclusion in the French Constitution, once Parliament meets in Congress in Versailles, this Monday, March 4.
“I am committed to making women's freedom to have an abortion irreversible by enshrining it in the Constitution.
After the National Assembly, the Senate is taking a decisive step which I welcome,” Emmanuel Macron quickly commented on X (ex-Twitter), confirming that he would convene the Congress on March 4.
Gérard Larcher's chief of staff, who chaired the end of the session, had been informed shortly before by the secretary general of the Élysée Alexis Kohler.
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