Michel Barnier promises to pick up the text where he left off, but…

POLITICS – The return of the end-of-life bill to Parliament is taking shape. After sowing doubt in his general policy speech to deputies on Tuesday, Prime Minister Michel Barnier clarified his thoughts this Thursday, October 3 on the set of the show The Event.

In the National Assembly, the head of government declared that he wanted “resuming the dialogue with you, with the Senate, caregivers and associations at the beginning of next year on the bill”. A surprise for the defenders of the text when a point of balance had been found after long debates. The President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet even admitted to having been “disappointed” by the words of Michel Barnier.

The latter therefore corrected on France 2. Recalling that the question of the end of life was “very serious” car “it touches the conscience”, he first indicated that he was “personally agree (with the) first bill”, as you can hear below.

“To save time”

And to add: “I am in favor of returning to work from the moment it was interrupted. » Journalist Guillaume Daret asks him to clarify if he wants to ” to resume ” the “project as examined”. Response from Michel Barnier: ” Yes. To save time. »

He nevertheless declared that “lots of amendments” had been deposited and that it was not “not necessarily agree with everyone”. Without specifying which ones. The Prime Minister adds that he wants “do things seriously, with seriousness, while listening to the caregivers who must be respected, and those accompanying them.”

To relaunch the end-of-life reform and prevent it from being buried, the related MoDem deputy Olivier Falorni already tabled a bill on September 24, taking up almost the entire text adopted before the dissolution, namely the legalization of assisted suicide and the“active assistance in dying” in very supervised conditions. The text was signed by 166 deputies – including Élisabeth Borne, François Hollande, Mathilde Panot and Boris Vallaud.

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