2023-09-13 15:25:00
Olivier Véran considers that this is an “important step forward”, even if it does not foreshadow an immediate presentation to the Council of Ministers.
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Lhe draft law on the end of life should see “significant progress by the end of September”, declared Olivier Véran, government spokesperson, during the report of the Council of Ministers, this Wednesday September 13. On the other hand, he clarified that he did not “yet have the detailed agenda”.
At the beginning of April, Emmanuel Macron announced the new law for “by the end of summer” when he received the 150 members of the citizens’ convention on the end of life. However, this Wednesday, Olivier Véran refuted any delay linked to the visit of Pope Francis to Marseille, on September 22 and 23, hostile to euthanasia. He recalled that it is “a very big job”, requiring “major consultation”. “Such a bill with such an impact, that it takes a few weeks, we should not start a bad fight,” he commented. READ ALSO Active assistance in dying: what the law allows today
The text is “in the process of being written”, Agnès Firmin Le Bodo said in mid-July. The Minister Delegate in charge of Territorial Organization and Health Professions, who is leading the file, resumed consultations last week with representatives of caregivers and parliamentarians.
Several points under discussion
According to a government source, “we are still in the drafting phase, in the search for the word which does not fit well and which no one has seen”, but the bill will be submitted to the president “before the end of September “. This does not, however, foreshadow an immediate presentation to the Council of Ministers.
A minister, for his part, said he felt “the president was a little reserved” on this highly sensitive subject. “When he has reservations regarding something, he waits as late as possible to decide,” he emphasizes.
Among the points still to be resolved, the articulation of this bill with the ten-year plan for palliative care, requested by Emmanuel Macron, because certain elements of this strategy might integrate the text: “We must see what falls under the law or not, knowing that we do not want to have a talkative law,” underlines this same government source.
READ ALSO End of life: Line Renaud ready to circumvent the law to leave without sufferingOn this rather consensual aspect of palliative care, discussions are progressing according to the participants in the consultation. The much more sensitive and divisive part of active assistance in dying, however, remains dependent on executive arbitration.
The question of a referendum on this end-of-life issue came back into the debate, with the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet in particular saying she was in favor of it.
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