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07:04, March 4, 2024
Parliament meets on Monday in Congress at the Château de Versailles to make France the first country in the world to explicitly include voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG) in its Constitution and protect the right to abortion, which is in decline in a number of countries. country.
The country’s 925 parliamentarians, senators and deputies, are meeting on Monday at the Château de Versailles to ratify by a vote the inclusion of the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) in the Constitution. A major political meeting which will take place without Emmanuel Macron, although the stakes are far from negligible for him. The absence of the Head of State is fully justified.
A major challenge for Emmanuel Macron
A revision of the Constitution, governed by article 89, does not provide for the presence of the head of state. In 2017 and then in 2018, Emmanuel Macron spoke to parliamentarians gathered in Congress. This Monday, Gabriel Attal will speak but there is no doubt that the tenant of the Élysée will closely follow this timeless moment, because although physically absent, the stakes are high for Emmanuel Macron: to leave a mark in History . “It’s his legacy that is taking shape,” deciphers one of his relatives.
A measure which has never appeared in the program of the Head of State
This is why, Friday March 8, International Women’s Rights Day, the Head of State will chair a sealing ceremony at the Ministry of Justice. At his side, Éric Dupond-Moretti will mark the text which will be adopted today with republican wax. A way for Emmanuel Macron to show that this revision of the Constitution is the fruit of his action, even if this measure never appeared in his program, neither in 2017 nor in 2022.