2024-10-04 08:00:03
A confession and a challenge. Prime Minister Michel Barnier declared for the first time on Thursday 3 October on France 2: “personally agree” with the bill that opens access to assistance in dying, i.e. euthanasia and assisted suicide for the incurably ill, under certain conditions. “I’m talking about the first bill”he corrected himself.
The examination of the text at first reading was abruptly interrupted by the dissolution of the National Assembly in June. The prime minister also said so “in favor of returning to work when it was interrupted”. When asked about his intention to resume the project as it had been examined, Mr. Barnier responded “yes, to save time” et “perhaps also listening to the caregivers, who must be respected”. A high-risk challenge for the head of government, both “positions”he pointed out, they are “different” within political groups. The most difficult task will be to bring together the competing views of MPs in favor of assisted dying.
One point unites them: they demand legislation without further delay. “It is no longer the time for consultations, the work has been done, we must act”assures Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, former minister delegated to health professions and then to healthcare in the governments of Elisabeth Borne. Key to the text presented by Emmanuel Macron at the Council of Ministers in April, Firmin Le Bodo, MP (Horizons) for Seine-Maritime, today urges the Prime Minister to present “in January [2025] » a bill, inspired by the government’s copy in the spring.
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Firmin Le Bodo hopes to convince the government to take the legislative dossier back to square one. It thus intends to counter the offensive led by Olivier Falorni, the deputy (various on the left) of Charente-Maritime, which took up verbatim the version voted in May and June after the work of the special commission of the Assembly, then of the deputies in session, in a bill presented in July. It collected 180 signatures from deputies.
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