The President of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR) said on Tuesday that he was opposed to the inclusion of abortion in the Constitution, a promise from Emmanuel Macron. If the vote is postponed in a week, the deputies will begin the debates around this bill on Wednesday.
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The vote on the bill which should lead to the inclusion of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution has been postponed to Tuesday January 30, franceinfo learned from the head of the rebellious deputies Mathilde Panot. The vote was initially scheduled to take place on Wednesday in the Assembly.
This solemn vote will take place after the general policy declaration of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. This will allow there to be more people in the hemicycle, according to Mathilde Panot. This Wednesday, the deputies will begin the debates around this bill.
The President of the Republicans of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, invited Tuesday on franceinfo, indicated that he did not want the right to abortion to be enshrined in the Constitution. “I don’t think that abortion is threatened in our country”he justified.
