Mainly on the right, the Senate rejected a cross-partisan bill, supported by the government. The debate on this subject will take place in November in the National Assembly.
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The right-wing majority Senate rejected on Wednesday, October 19 at first reading a cross-partisan bill to include the right to abortion in the Constitution, supported by the government. The text, co-signed by senators from seven of the eight political groups in the Senate, with the exception of the first of them, Les Républicains, was debated in the context of a reserved space (“parliamentary niche”) to the environmental group. Its rejection was voted by 139 votes for and 172 votes against, after sometimes lively exchanges which turned into a right-left confrontation.
“The senatorial majority has chosen to register against the will of 81% of French men and women”reacted the author of the bill, Mélanie Vogel, for whom “This battle is not over. It’s only just begun”. Two similar constitutional bills are in the pipeline in the National Assembly, on the initiative of the left-wing alliance Nupes and the presidential majority group Renaissance.
At the Palais Bourbon, the macronists want to carry their text on November 9 in the Law Commission and the week of November 28 in the hemicycle. Include in the Constitution the right to abortion “would have the force of the symbol”, said the Keeper of the Seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti. He assured that “the government will respond to support each of the many parliamentary initiatives in this area”.
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A proposed constitutional law, when it is voted on in the same terms by both chambers, must still be submitted to referendum in order to be adopted definitively. A bill can be submitted to Congress for approval.
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