The Head of State recalled Thursday that the ethics committee was to give him a report “next Tuesday”, September 13, in this regard.
Le Monde
Emmanuel Macron confirmed Thursday, September 8, the upcoming launch of a “citizen convention” on the end of life, believing that “we must move for more humanity”, on the sidelines of the launch of the National Council of the Refoundation (CNR) in Marcoussis (Essonne).
“The approach on which I engaged in the presidential campaign is to launch a citizen convention on its own but also to make the political forces work” of the Parliament, assured the head of state before the press, recalling that the ethics committee was to give him a report “next Tuesday”, September 13.
During the presidential campaign, Emmanuel Macron had already announced his desire to establish a “citizen convention” on the subject to decide the debates concerning euthanasia and the end of life to “advance in a peaceful way”.
“Method”
“I will have the opportunity next Tuesday to say the method and how we will chant this work to allow the company to take into account the essential developments on this immense subject,” he said.
The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, spoke of this convention during the government seminar on August 31. Monday, September 5, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, said it was awaiting that “Parliament could be seized quickly from a text relating to the end of life”.
In May 2021, 296 deputies of all stripes, more than half of the National Assembly, had asked Prime Minister Jean Castex, in a letter, to register the order of the law authorizing the bill authorizing Euthanasia, whose examination could not go to an end in April. Despite a broad support, the bill opening a right to “an end of free and chosen life” of the deputy Olivier Falorni (group freedoms and territories) could not be adopted, faced with thousands of amendments deposited by some elected officials The Republicans and a constrained time.
“Need time”
“It is now important to continue this parliamentary work. The French urgently ask that everything be done in the current period to protect the living and to humanize the agony of the dying” in full pandemic of COVID-19, said then The nearly 300 deputies, led by Yaël Braun-Pivet, then president of the Law Commission (La République en Marche, LRM), his colleague “walker” Jean-Louis Touraine and Mr. Falorni, in particular.
“The debate deserves to take place, there is no doubt”, but he “needed time” on such a “sensitive” subject, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, said before the Assembly. However, he had promised a better application of the current French law, known as Claeys-Leonetti, adopted in 2016, which provides for a deep and continuous sedation that can lead to death, but without active euthanasia.