The government spokesperson is counting on the “presentation of a legal text by the end of the year, with an examination in Parliament in the spring”, he says on France Inter.
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Guest of France Inter on Tuesday November 14, Olivier Véran indicated that a “legislation” on the end of life would be presented by the government “by the end of 2023, with a review in Parliament during the spring”. “We will be in these waters, probably“, added the government spokesperson, refuting everything “recoil” on the subject.
On April 3, after receiving the members of the citizens’ convention on the end of life, Emmanuel Macron declared that he wanted a bill “by the end of summer.” But the text is still awaited. “No”, the government is not seeking to extend the deadline, assured its spokesperson.
The Head of State was to bring together on Tuesday at the Élysée the ministers concerned by the future bill on the end of life, including that of Health Aurélien Rousseau, that of Solidarités Aurore Bergé. This “scoping meeting was postponed because the President of the Republic is traveling to where he is needed, where he is urgently expected, that is to say in Pas-de-Calais because there is thousands of fellow citizens waiting for his presence to make important announcements for citizens and farmers”explained Olivier Véran before reaffirming: “But that doesn’t call into question the bill at all.”
The government must in particular arbitrate on the criteria set for the use of assisted suicide, euthanasia having already been excluded from the discussions. It is, for the moment, a question of five criteria: being of age, resident in France, victim of “unbearable” or “refractory” suffering, author of a choice, free, informed and repeated and having a vital prognosis committed to medium. term. This last criterion would thus exclude many people suffering from Charcot disease, which causes progressive paralysis.