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7:13 a.m., June 3, 2024
The bill on the end of life resumes in the National Assembly, after the adoption of palliative care and the removal of advance directives last week, the deputies will now tackle the most divisive subject, that of the end of life. Despite some uncertainties, the government remains rather confident.
The debates resume. After the adoption of palliative care and the removal of advance directives last week, the end-of-life bill resumes this Monday in the National Assembly. The deputies will now tackle the most thorny subject: the end of life. Despite some uncertainties, the government remains rather confident. At the end of last week, before the resumption of debates, Catherine Vautrin spoke to Europe 1 and said she felt “a rapprochement of positions between the deputies”.
Enough to make the Minister of Health quite optimistic about the conditions of access to the end of life. “I will commit to obtaining a majority on the wording: terminal phase or vital prognosis engaged in the short or medium term,” she assures. In order to avoid potential tensions within the deputies of the presidential majority, for example on the thorny question of the offense of obstruction integrated by La France insoumise, the government should, according to our information, issue an opinion of wisdom, it that is to say, remain neutral.
Still uncertainties for the government
Catherine Vautrin still wants to be cautious, because in this context of relative majority and without any voting instructions, everything is still possible. Especially since another unknown will enter the debates this week, the European campaign. For a government executive, there is no doubt, “The Republicans will oppose virulently, to attract conservative votes from François-Xavier Bellamy.”