2024-03-11 15:11:27
The hemicycle of the National Assembly, in Paris, July 18, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP
Two months following 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 regarding 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 once more 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.
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• 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 the legislative calendar on Monday: it will be examined from May 27 in plenary session of 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 “following summer”added the minister, invoking “the time necessary for a quality debate, peaceful in both Chambers”.
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• 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.
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• “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 might 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 Ms. Lebec “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 “mi-mai au Sénat” 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 might 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 July 1” by a Congress specifically dedicated to this issue, according to the minister.
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