“When you see the new National Assembly, yes, there is an urgent need to include the right to abortion in the Constitution,” said Mathilde Panot, president of the LFI deputies in the National Assembly.
Guest of the program “Les Quatre Vérités” on France 2, the president of the group La France insoumise (LFI) in the National Assembly, Mathilde Panot, confirmed that the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) would submit its own text. to enshrine the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in the Constitution. “The tragedy across the Atlantic obliges us. To prevent any obstacle to the fundamental right of abortion, I propose, as of Monday, to the Nupes to file a bill to include it in the Constitution “she posted on Twitter Friday evening, after the historic decision of the Supreme Court of the United States to revoke this right.
On Saturday June 25, the president of the Renaissance group (ex-La République en Marche) at the Palais-Bourbon, Aurore Bergé, also announced the filing of a bill to register “respect for abortion in our Constitution”. Will the Nupes vote for this bill? “We’ll see how it goes”began by saying Mme Panot, highlighting the Nupes proposal, dating ” from yesterday “. “It is a text that will be proposed to all deputies, excluding the National Rally [RN], including Macronist deputies. I hope they will be willing to co-sign our joint text”replied the leader of the “rebellious” deputies.
“I warn on one point: what happened in the United States, what is happening in Poland, it can happen in France. When you see the new National Assembly, with RN deputies like Mme [Laure] Lavalette who signed a text to ban abortion, like Mme [Caroline] Parmentier who speaks of genocide when she speaks of abortion, or like Mme Le Pen who wanted to ban “comfort” abortions, yes, there is an urgent need to include abortion in the Constitution”did she say. “If the macronists are too sectarian, we will vote for them, because the cause is too important to pass on political games. But I hope they don’t have this bigotry and they can co-sign the proposal we’ll be tabling today.”she added.
Mme Panot also called on Elisabeth Borne to submit to a vote of confidence after her general policy speech. « Mme Borne must go and ask for confidence in the National Assembly, as in all democracies.insisted Mme Panot, before journalist Thomas Sotto recalls that Pierre Bérégovoy, Edith Cresson and Michel Rocard had not asked for a vote of confidence. “No offense to Mr. Macron, he is no longer the only one to decide, the National Assembly is no longer his recording chamber or his doormat, so he must do with a strong National Assembly”she replied.
Mr. Macron asked Mr.me Terminal to discuss with the political forces of government this week, clearly excluding LFI and the RN. “Yes, we are a force of government, yes we always aspire to govern”estimated Mme Panot. Reacting to the words of the communist Fabien Roussel, who believes that dialogue is possible with Mme Borne, Mme Panot judged that“he expresses himself[ait] in its own name, because that is not the position of the communist group in the Assembly”.