The President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet said she was “disappointed” by Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s proposal to want to resume “the dialogue” on the end of life only at the beginning of 2025, calling for a resumption as quickly as possible. examination of the text by the deputies. “I will not be satisfied with procrastination on the matter,” she warned before the Association of Parliamentary Journalists, affirming that on this subject “the debate must take place in the National Assembly, nowhere else”. Tuesday in his general policy speech, Michel Barnier indicated his intention to “resume dialogue (…) at the beginning of next year” on the bill whose examination had been interrupted by the dissolution at the beginning of June, in also involving “the Senate, caregivers and associations”.
“I was disappointed”, reacted Yaël Braun-Pivet, “because I know that it is a text which is awaited by the French and that the Assembly is ready to discuss it”. “It is not a question of reopening a dialogue at the beginning of 2025, we must resume examination of the text where we left off,” she insisted. Wishing that the calendar would be defined “in good agreement with the government”, the President of the Assembly nevertheless said she was “ready to include” the text on the agenda the week of December 2 “if we have no perspective agenda”.
An impatience dictated by the length of the procedure, which requires at least two readings in the Assembly and the Senate before a possible final vote. “Let’s be realistic, if we want to take the time, that is to say 18 months to two years (…) we have to go now”, underlined Yaël Braun-Pivet, judging that “ “There is no question of waiting much longer because otherwise it would be a first-class funeral.”
