2023-09-13 11:17:47
The bill on the end of life, announced “by the end of summer“by Emmanuel Macron, must be the subject of a”significant progress by the end of September“, assured government spokesperson Olivier Véran this Wednesday.
“From the information I have to know, there would be significant progress by the end of September“, declared Olivier Véran during the report of the Council of Ministers. He clarified that he did not have “still the detailed agenda“.
Refutes any delay linked to Pope Francis’ visit to Marseille
Refuting any delay linked to the visit of Pope Francis to Marseille on September 22 and 23, he assured that “the presentation of the text adapts to the finalization of the elements of the text“. He recalled that it is “a very big job“requiring”big consultation“. “Such a bill with such an impact, that it takes a few weeks, we must not pick a bad argument“, he commented.
Announced for the end of the summer by the Head of State when he received at the beginning of April the 150 members of the citizens’ convention on the end of life, the text is “being written“, said Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, the Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions, who is leading the file in mid-July. The latter resumed consultations last week with representatives of caregivers and parliamentarians.
“We are in the purity of writing”
According to a government source, “we are in the purity of the writing, in the search for the word which does not fit well and which no one has seen“but the bill will be handed over to the president”before the end of September“. Which does not, however, foreshadow an immediate presentation to the Council of Ministers.
A minister for his part said he felt “the president a little reserved“on this highly sensitive subject.”When he is reserved about something, he waits as late as possible to decide“, he emphasizes.
Among the points still to be resolved, the articulation of this bill with the ten-year plan for palliative care, requested by Emmanuel Macron, because certain elements of this strategy could integrate the text: “We must see what is within the law or not, knowing that we do not want to have a talkative law“, underlines this same government source.
On this rather consensual aspect of palliative care, discussions are progressing according to the participants in the consultation. The much more sensitive and divisive part of active assistance in dying, however, remains dependent on executive arbitration.
The question of a referendum on this end-of-life issue came back into the debate, with the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet in particular saying she was in favor of it.
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