Postponed several times, the end-of-life bill could arrive in Parliament within a few months.
The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, said this Wednesday that she was waiting “firmly before the summer” for the end-of-life bill promised by Emmanuel Macron, and demanded more broadly that the government present its “timetable work” in Parliament.
Two years after the head of state's campaign promise, the debate on the end of life is slow to begin.
Too much for Yaël Braun-Pivet, who estimated on France Inter that “it is time for Parliament to take up this subject (and) for the bill to be presented to the Council of Ministers, so that parliamentarians can deliberate on it” .
The text, postponed many times by the Élysée, "I am firmly awaiting it before the summer", she insisted, recalling the deadline set by the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, in his general policy declaration at the end January.
“The President of the Republic (Emmanuel Macron) will have a word on the subject very soon,” government spokesperson Prisca Thevenot assured later this Wednesday during the report of the Council of Ministers.
“Give every French person freedom”
Herself in favor of "giving each French person the freedom to choose the end of life", the President of the National Assembly stressed that she would not be "satisfied with an end of mandate without us having a text on the subject.
Yaël Braun-Pivet also urged the executive to finally unveil the bills it intended to include on the agenda by the summer, while Parliament's agenda currently runs "until 'in May ".
“We need a work calendar because we need to be able to anticipate the subjects (…) hold hearings, work on our amendments,” she said.
In addition to the end of life, she placed "at the top of the pile the agricultural orientation law" postponed due to the sector's revolt, and also mentioned the economic "law on simplification" announced by Gabriel Attal.
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Asked about the question of the parliamentary agenda, Prisca Thevenot also cited the agricultural orientation law, the end of life and “work issues”.
She specified, in this regard, that a government seminar “on the subject of work” would be held “at the end of March”.
As for the choice of the calendar, she referred it to the National Assembly which must decide “in complete independence”.