The conclusions made by the 180 participants in the citizens’ convention on the end of life “do not engage our democracy”, affirmed the number 2 of the Republicans this Monday on Sud Radio.
The number 2 of the Republicans François-Xavier Bellamy estimated on Monday that the citizens’ convention on the end of life, which said it was in favor on Sunday February 19 of an evolution towards a “active assistance in dying», «only represents itself“.
The citizens’ conventiongoes around in circles and produces conclusions that do not engage our democracy“, estimated the MEP on Sud Radio, recalling that 13 associations representing “800,000 caregivers“denounced Thursday in a forum”a fundamental ethical break, but also a complete transformation of the entire universe of care“.
“Manner of demagoguery (…) scandalous”
Indeed, according to François-Xavier Bellamy, “the day when you have the possibility of dying rather than continuing the course of care, (…) the questions arise for you in a completely different way: vis-à-vis your family, do I I’m not going to be a burden, vis-à-vis your entourage, vis-à-vis the doctors themselves…»
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“Opposed to euthanasia“, François-Xavier Bellamy also raised”a reluctance in principle on these citizen conventions“. “We had drawn people by lot after the yellow vests, telling ourselves that we were going to have a real popular representation, (…) which is an absolutely scandalous form of populist demagogy“, added the number 2 of LR for which”the place of the debates is first of all the Parliament“. The approximately 180 participants in the citizens’ convention on the end of life estimated this Sunday, at 75%, that access to active assistance in dying should be open, and at 56% that it should also concern minors.
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Asked about the decision of the president of LR to dismiss Aurélien Pradié, the other executive vice-president, François-Xavier Bellamy estimated that Éric Ciotti had done “a choice of clarification” and of “consistency” For “ensure the clarity of the line of our political family“. “We do not follow the macronists” but “we are not going to deny what we have said for years on the grounds that it is Emmanuel Macron who ends up saying the same thing as uson pensions, he added.
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