the pitfalls are piling up for the government

The letter is dated Wednesday, June 14. “The long sequence on the pension reform leaves lasting traces and, unfortunately, the confidence necessary to move forward on subjects as complex and delicate as the end of life, is very largely damaged”, write the authors. In this letter that The world was able to consult, Eliane i, president of the communist group in the Senate, and André Chaigne, boss of the deputies of the same party, address themselves to Agnès Firmin Le Bodo to signify her an end of inadmissibility. The Minister Delegate for Territorial Organization and the Health Professions invited, a few days ago, by email, the political groups of the two chambers to nominate each of them two elected members to participate in the “co-construction” end-of-life bill. This text promised by Emmanuel Macron for the ” end of summer “ will create, according to the minister, a “new law”, that of active istance in dying in the form of isted suicide and/or euthanasia.

Thursday, June 15, Mme Firmin Le Bodo brought together for the first time the cenacle of elected officials thus mandated. The chairs of the Communist parliamentarians remained empty, those of the senators Les Républicains (LR) and of the socialist senatorial group too.

The minister, charged by the Head of State with drawing up the bill, knew that she was exposing herself to defections in the climate of heightened tensions between the executive and the parliamentary opposition. But this boycott is the first manifestation of the limits of the government’s method on this future text. While he claims to ociate elected officials, he is accused by several opposition groups of wanting ” climb over “ And ” to pre-empt “ debates in Parliament.

Since September 2022, Mme Firmin Le Bodo marks the road which must lead to respect for “willingness to appease” and of “concord” wanted by Mr. Macron on the subject. Fruit of its efforts, Thursday, it was able to bring together members of the group ecologists, solidarities and territories in the Senate. Also deputies from the ecologists, socialists, from the Freedom group, independents, overseas and territory and from the National Rally. The LR group in the embly will sit in the next meetings. “It will be a participation without support, specifies however the president of the group, Olivier Marleix. We are not fooled by the method of the government which says it wants to co-construct when it is he who holds the pen. “But we hear weighing, continues the deputy of Eur-et-Loir, in the writing, in particular, of the palliative care component of the future law. »

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