The President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, said on Wednesday that she was waiting “firmly before the summer” for the draft law on the end of life promised by Emmanuel Macron, and demanded more broadly that the government present its “calendar of work” in Parliament.
The President of the Assembly expects a bill before the summer
Two years after the head of state’s campaign promise, the debate on the end of life is slow to begin. Too much for Ms. Braun-Pivet, who estimated on France Inter that “it is time for Parliament to take up this subject (and) for the bill to be presented to the Council of Ministers, so that parliamentarians can deliberate on it” . This text, repeatedly postponed by the Élysée, “I firmly expect it before the summer”, she insisted, recalling the deadline set by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in his general policy declaration at the end of January.
Herself in favor of “giving each French person the freedom to choose the end of life”, the President of the Assembly stressed that she would not be “satisfied with an end of mandate without us having a text in this matter.”
“At the top of the pile, the agricultural orientation law”
mrs Braun-Pivet also urged the executive to finally unveil the bills it intended to include on the agenda by the summer, while Parliament’s agenda currently runs “until May”. “We need a work calendar because we need to be able to anticipate the subjects (…) hold hearings, work on our amendments,” she explained.
In addition to the end of life, she placed “at the top of the pile the agricultural orientation law” postponed due to the sector’s revolt, and also mentioned the economic “law on simplification” announced by Mr. Attal.