A stamp on the right to abortion, and a foot in the European election campaign.
On Friday, during a rare ceremony to seal the Constitution, Emmanuel Macron drew from the solemn register while moving towards the June 9 vote.
Place Vendôme, in Paris, the head of state praised "
a very great day for our Republic
" - conveniently chosen on March 8, International Women's Rights Day.
After the adoption by Congress on Monday of the law enshrining in the Constitution the “
guaranteed freedom
” to resort to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), “
we had to engrave the irreversible
,” he said. launched into the microphone.
A few minutes earlier, his Minister of Justice, Éric Dupond-Moretti, turned the screw of the sealing press on a wafer of green wax, crossed by a tricolor ribbon.
On the platform, accompanied by the actress Catherine Deneuve and Claudine Monteil, the youngest signatory of the Manifesto of 343, he heard long applause...
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