This surprise registration, while the executive has long procrastinated on the subject, will allow the text to continue his legislative care and suggest an adoption by the end of the mandat.
Le Monde with AFP
At four months of the presidential election and despite the reluctance expressed by Emmanuel Macron, the Government finally decided on Monday 6 December, to put on the agenda of the Senate in January 2022 a bill allowing the elongation the duration of the legal period of recourse to the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVG).
This surprise registration, while the executive has long proceduned over the duration of this extension, twelve to fourteen weeks, will allow the text to continue its legislative care and suggest an adoption by the end of the mandate.
The text brought by the opposition member Albane Gaillot (not registered) was adopted on 30 November at second reading at the National Assembly under the leadership of the Patron of the Deputies the Republic (LRM), Christophe Castaner , despite the reluctance expressed by Mr. Macron on his layer-flagship.
“I am pleased that the government understood its responsibility and the importance for all women to include in the Senate this bill adopted twice by the National Assembly, and thus allow it to continue the parliamentary shuttle “Reacted to the France-Presse agency, M me Gaillot.
The socialist group, represented by Patrick Kanner, welcomed Tuesday, the return of this text to the Senate. The group leader (for socialist, environmental, republican) hopes that Parliament will adopt this “progressive” and “always supported” text by these elected officials, he said on public Senate. Each year, “2,000 women in France are forced to leave” abroad to carry out an IVG, said Kanner.
Emmanuel Macron’s reluctance
The question of the parliamentary future of this text above which was the repeated opposition of Mr. Macron. The reluctance expressed twice by the Head of State appeared to sign the end of the journey of the text, which brings the circles to provies, but has received the support of several associations and movements for the rights of women.
“I have not changed his mind. Additional delays are not neutral on the trauma of a woman,” said 10 days ago the head of state, according to words reported by Le Figaro, while it was on their way to meet the Pope at the Vatican. Mr. Macron, however, had nuanced: “Afterwards, I respect the freedom of parliamentarians.”
“The Government had asked for a notice of wisdom. It allows the text to continue its journey in Parliament,” she was found in the entourage of Mr. Castaner. The government would not thus volte-face or a side step compared to the narrow path plot Parm. Macron.
In addition to the LRM deputies, the release last week, the President of the LRM group in the Senate, François Patriate, who refused to put the text in his parliamentary niche scheduled for January 12, also had to weigh in the balance .
The Senator of Côte-d’Or finally stated that the Government puts the bill on the agenda of the High Assembly the bill, which should be retoted by the right, the majority in the Senate, taken by the President Very conservative group The Republicans (LR), Bruno Retaileau.