From the Luxembourg Palace, the Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, called on Wednesday February 28 for senators to be “lived up to popular expectations”. The parliamentarians of the upper house must in fact decide at the end of the afternoon on the inclusion of the right to abortion in the Constitution, an undecided but essential step before the meeting of Parliament in Congress. Senators debate from 4:30 p.m., with a vote expected at the end of the day. If they vote for the text without modification, the Congress could be held next week in Versailles (Yvelines). Follow the debates in our live stream.
Will the senatorial majority vote on the text as is? The debates promise to be tense at the Palais du Luxembourg. On the one hand, the government supported by the left in favor of this revision promised by Emmanuel Macron. On the other, part of the right and centrists still skeptical of the formulation adopted by the executive. The text submitted to the vote of the 348 senators, according to which “the law determines the conditions under which the freedom guaranteed to a woman to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy is exercised”always irritates the ranks of the Republicans a little.
Right-wing amendments rejected in the law committee. The “for” camp is beginning to firmly believe in the green light from the Senate: Wednesday morning, the Senate Law Committee in fact rejected all the editorial modification amendments tabled by the right, according to several parliamentarians. This trend must still be confirmed in a public session in the afternoon.
A Congress at the beginning of next week in the event of a favorable vote. If the senators adopt the text in the same terms as the National Assembly, Parliament must meet in Congress early Monday afternoon, according to information from France Télévisions.