The Economic, Social and Environmental Council awaits its official referral. Shadow areas remain on the articulation between citizen work and political debate.
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Although no official referral has yet reached him, the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (EESC) gave the Citizen Convention on the End of Life by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, September 29. The Assembly of the Palais d’Iéna brought together, for the first time, a “governance committee” (“Co-Gouv”), in charge of the methodology of this convention.
It is a question of having “a collective reflection on a sensitive subject which will make it possible to consider, if necessary, the details and developments of our legal framework by the end of 2023”, A specified the Elysée, September 13. “To this end will be formed next October a citizen agreement whose conclusions will be rendered in March 2023, explained the press release. It will be organized by the EESC, which is now the vocation.”
The order thus emanates from the President of the Republic. But the organic law of January 2021 provides that the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, must officially seize the EESC, with a specific question to organize the debate. Even if the delivery of the mail will take a few days, the time to transit between the Elysée, Matignon and the ministers concerned …
“There is no wolf!”, He is assured in the cabinet of Agnès Firmin Le Bodo, the Minister Delegate in charge of the Territorial Organization and the Health Professions, responsible for the animation of the debate policy on the end of life. “If the question asked must be clear for the citizen convention, it must also be intelligible for all French people. Which explains that its writing takes a little time.”
“The more neutral possible “
The National Ethics Advisory Committee (CCNE), which gave an opinion on the end of life on September 13, and EESC are also associated with its drafting. “Without anticipating, advances Thierry Beaudet, the president of the EESC, one could imagine the contours of a question which would question the existing legal framework [the Claeys-Leonetti law of 2016] to know if it is adapted, and, s ‘It was not, consider the necessary changes. The objective being to be as neutral as possible in the formulation. “
The drafting of the question posed to the Convention is not the only subject on which the government is groping. The executive pushes the fires under the citizen convention while letting its ministers go up to the front on the subject. The government is thus likely to instill doubt on its displayed neutrality, in a debate with the French presented as as open as possible.
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