Large victory in the Senate.
While the vote at the Luxembourg Palace in favor of the constitutional bill, aiming to include abortion in the 1958 text, was still uncertain in recent hours, the senators finally approved the text by a very large majority: 267 votes for and 50 votes against.
An adoption in the same terms as those of the National Assembly, which
de facto
triggers the convening of Congress, the meeting of parliamentarians from both chambers, next Monday, for a final vote.
As soon as the outcome of the vote was known, the entire macronie was delighted with the choice of this chamber with a right-wing majority.
Starting with the President of the Republic himself, who welcomed a
“decisive step which (he) welcomes”
.
A symbolic and political victory for Emmanuel Macron who, as he himself recalls, was
“committed”
to
“making the freedom of women to resort to abortion irreversible”
.
And who had made women's rights the
“great cause”
of his two five-year terms.
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Same clamor from the Minister Delegate in charge of Equality between Women and Men, Aurore Bergé, who, a few weeks ago,
“urged”
the Senators to be at the
“rendezvous”
of
“History »
.
“For our mothers.
For our girls.
Here we are !"
, applauded the woman, whose mother had to have an abortion in hiding, and who was at the origin of the constitutional law proposal.
The Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, who was on the Senate benches on Wednesday, praised the
“new page in women's rights”
.
By affirming that France was
“the first country in the world”
to protect abortion in its Constitution.
The left exults
If the right and the National Rally are very discreet, the left, speaking for once with one voice, does not hide its joy.
The president of the Insoumis deputies Mathilde Panot thus spoke of the
“last lock”
which
“jumped”
.
“We are writing history
,” said the elected official from Val-de-Marne.
Engaged in this fight for a long time, Senator EELV Mélanie Vogel prided herself on a
“historic victory”
, which
“is above all that of feminists, associations and activists who have not given up.”
Finally, for the first secretary of the PS Olivier Faure, it is
“the culmination of several decades of feminist struggles.”
“France will remain the country of free choice.
The conservatives have folded
,” mocked the socialist.