The examination of the bill which establishes assisted dying, currently under examination, was stopped dead by the dissolution of the National Assembly. Its future is now hanging on the legislative elections.
End of course for the “end of life” law, a major societal reform of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term? The examination of the bill opening assistance in dying is stopped dead by the dissolution of the National Assembly. The text will not be voted on June 18 as planned.
While this promise from the Head of State was under discussion, can the text be abandoned? According to parliamentary regulations, the end of a legislature renders bills currently being read before the National Assembly obsolete. “The text on the end of life, everything we had until now as a parliamentary path is destroyed”, lamented on France 2 Yaël Braun-Pivet, president of the National Assembly before the dissolution. A law project “will have to be re-tabled by a new government” and “all the debates which took place in the special committee and in the hemicycle no longer exist”, she added.
After the legislative elections (June 30 and July 7), the new government…
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