Yaël Braun-Pivet hopes that the text will be “re-examined in the Assembly before the end of the year”

Making up for lost time. The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, stated on Tuesday, September 24, that she wants the text on the end of life to be “re-examined before the end of the year in the Assembly”while the examination of the bill was interrupted just before the vote, a few days before the dissolution. “It is a text that is awaited by the French (…) We are ready, the text is ready and so we must go for it”she said on BFMTV.

MP Olivier Falorni (affiliated with MoDem), who chaired the parliamentary debates on this text, has just submitted a proposal which largely takes up the content of the interrupted project, signed by 166 MPs, including Yaël Braun-Pivet, former Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and three presidents of left-wing groups.

Several members of the government from LR have shown themselves to be firmly opposed to the text. This law was to legalize assisted suicide and, in certain specific cases, euthanasia, by bringing important conditions to it, while refusing to use these terms, preferring to speak of“active assistance in dying”Michel Barnier’s government has many opponents of this text, which had already taken more than a year to emerge, first and foremost the Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau, from the conservative right.

Macronist ministers such as Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, the new Minister of Labor, have also expressed their opposition, although the evolution of the law on the subject has long been a promise of Emmanuel Macron. Other members of the government are in favor, however, such as the Minister of Health, Geneviève Darieussecq, for whom the parliamentarians “must finish the job”Michel Barnier has so far been careful not to express himself or take a position on this subject.