Two months after the appointment of Gabriel Attal to Matignon, and while the executive did not hide its desire to legislate more by regulatory means, on subjects that allow it, parliamentarians were worried about the lack of perspective on government bills to be debated between now and summer. The Attal government finally revealed, Monday March 11, its legislative agenda for the coming monthsculminating in the examination of the bill on “end of life” and that on agriculture which should take place in May in the National Assembly.
While the regular session of Parliament ends at the end of June, the government is considering a special session of “two to three weeks” in July, depending on the progress of the examination of the texts. In the absence of an absolute majority, it will once again be forced to seek majorities text by text in Parliament, as was particularly the case during the turbulent examination of the “immigration” bill at the end of 2023.
• End of life
After long months of reflection, Emmanuel Macron announced on Sunday that the text on the end of life would open up the possibility for adults “possibility of requesting assistance in dying under certain strict conditions”.
The Prime Minister clarified Monday on X the legislative calendar : it will be examined from May 27 in plenary session at the Assembly, with “probably fifteen days of debate”, the Minister of Relations with Parliament, Marie Lebec, told journalists. The text will not be subject to an accelerated procedure and should arrive in the Senate “after summer”added the minister, invoking “the time necessary for a quality debate, peaceful in both Chambers”.
• Agriculture
The deputies should take up, from May 13, the expected bill on agriculture, while the crisis in the sector which broke out at the start of the year continues, despite the first concessions from the executive. He “was reworked following the agricultural crisis, the mobilization of sectors and commitment” of the executive “so that it is a complete, consolidated text that meets the expectations of farmers”continued Ms. Lebec. “Given the issues, we want to leave all the time necessary for the debates to take place. »
At the end of February, shortly before the Agricultural Show, which was marked by clashes during Mr. Macron’s visit, Mr. Attal wanted to give assurances to farmers by drawing up “a milestone” of the sixty-two projects launched by the government, and announced the presentation “by summer” of a new bill for “strengthen the EGalim system”.
• Accommodation
The government has planned for senators to first take up this other bill which concerns a sector in crisis, from mid-June.
Already criticized on the left, it must notably review the Solidarity and Urban Renewal (SRU) law, which sets quotas for social housing in certain municipalities. There will then be “during the second semester” a new text relating to the “decentralization of skills”according to the Minister of Relations with Parliament.
• “Economic rearmament”
Three texts are in preparation around the theme of “economic rearmament”, called for by the Head of State at the beginning of January. First a bill “on the attractiveness of the Paris market”, which could be examined the week of April 8 in the Assembly, then in mid-May in the Senate. Then, a bill on the simplification of procedures, “in continuation of a previous bill on green industry”, from the beginning of June in the Senate. Finally, another “on the opening of regulated sectors”which according to Mme Beak “should arrive more during the second half of the year”.
• Parental authority
The Minister of Relations with Parliament also announced that a bill on “parental responsibility and the criminal response for minors” would be registered with the “mid-May in the Senate” Then ” in June “ at the Palais-Bourbon. The content of the text, which is partly intended to be a response to last summer’s riots, has not yet been revealed.
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• New Caledonia
After the constitutional revision relating to the registration of the “freedom guaranteed” of the use of voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion), approved by Congress on March 4, a new constitutional revision could be implemented “during June”concerning New Caledonia.
A first ordinary text, already adopted in the Senate, must be validated in the Assembly before mid-April to record the postponement of the provincial elections. Then a constitutional reform must be adopted in both Chambers with a view to being ratified “before 1er July “ by a Congress specifically dedicated to this issue, according to the minister.
• Off the calendar: energy and “old age”
The bill on energy sovereignty, supposed to set France’s energy course, and which has already experienced several upheavals, is still not on the agenda. “We decided to give ourselves time to work and ensure that a text was submitted in good conditions”, declared Ms. Lebec. The same goes for the “old age” law, a long-standing promise by the executive and several times postponed, although the government committed at the end of last year to having it adopted during the year. 2024.