2024-03-05 00:39:37
The inclusion of abortion in the Constitution on Monday in Congress has the appearance of a formality, given the very clear votes in the Assembly and the Senate.
In total, 760 parliamentarians have already approved the text before the final vote, despite divisions on the right and the far right. The three-fifths mark of votes cast to ratify the reform does not seem to pose any difficulty.
On the left, parliamentarians voted for it, whether in the Senate or the National Assembly.
In the Renaissance group, only one Macronist parliamentarian voted against: the senator and former minister Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne.
At Horizons, Edouard Philippe’s party, 26 deputies out of 28 voted for, and the two absent had voted for Mathilde Panot’s text at the end of 2022. “I was not able to participate in the last ballot but my opinion did not change », Explains Jean-François Portarrieu to AFP. Their counterparts in the Senate who sit with “Les Indépendants” also voted in favor.
The MoDem was also largely in support, with 47 deputies out of 51, without voting against.
Despite opposition from the bosses of the LR and centrist Union groups – Bruno Retailleau and Hervé Marseille – their troops who constitute the senatorial majority largely supported the constitutionalization. More than half of the LR group, 72 out of 132, voted for, and two absentees wanted to make it known that they wanted to do the same. Around forty of their senators still opposed it. Among the deputies, the pro camp has even more weight, with 40 votes out of 62, including that of party leader Éric Ciotti. Fifteen MPs voted against and four abstained.
The centrist Union, which brings together UDI, MoDem and various center-right sensibilities, even largely approved the formulation: 41 votes, only 7 against and 7 abstentions.
The behavior of the RN was particularly scrutinized, its elected officials repeatedly denying themselves constituting a threat against the right to abortion, while the left and members of the majority readily reminded them of past positions. A narrow majority of the group in the Assembly finally voted for (46 out of 88, against 12 and 14 abstentions). The three RN senators approved the reform.
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