This is an important step to create a right to help die. The deputies adopted on Tuesday, May 27, the bill on Tuesday, May 27, the bill presented by the Modem Olivier Falorni chosen with 305 votes and 199 votes against.
This text defines the necessary conditions and criteria that lead to “authorize and accompany a person who expressed the request to resort to a lethal substance.” Among these criteria: be at least 18 years old and have French nationality or reside in a stable and regular manner in France.
Among the other criteria are the fact of being achieved “a serious and incurable affection” that “commits the vital prognosis, in the advanced phase” or “terminal”, presents a “constant physical or psychological suffering linked to this affection” and “to be able to express its will in a free and enlightened way.”
At the same time, the deputies also unanimously voted for the draft Renaissance Law Annie Vidal Deputy about the support and palliative care, the second legislative part related to the end of life.
The text could be examined by the Senate in autumn
Subject of split within parliamentary groups, the creation of help to die is also divided into the government. In an interview this Tuesday morning at BFMTV-RMC, François Bayrou reported his “questions” about the bill and said he would have abstained if he had to decide the text as a deputy.
However, the Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, had defended this weekend, in an interview with La Tribune on Sunday, a law that leads to the creation of a “French model (…) strict and box.”
Adopted at the beginning in the Palais Bourbon, the bill will now have to go through the “Senate” table, dominated by law and the center and less acquired to this reform. According to Catherine Vautrin, senators could examine the text in autumn before “a return to the National Assembly in early 2026”.
“We know, it is a long trip that remains to lead,” said the minister on Tuesday after the vote of the deputies. “The text will follow its path in the Senate and I want this path to follow with the same listening, the same desire to find a consensus.”
Source: BFM TV
