The text on the end of life examined in the National Assembly: what are the main stuck subjects ?

Catherine Vautrin en première ligne, lundi, au Palais Bourbon. MAXPPP – CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON

Le texte, dont l’examen a débuté lundi, est au cœur d’une intense bataille parlementaire.

This is the most important societal reform of the five-year term. On Monday, deputies began examining the bill on "support for the sick and the end of life".

This sensitive text of 21 articles, included on the agenda of the hemicycle of the National Assembly for two weeks, aims to improve the provision of care palliatives. Above all, it establishes for the first time “assisted dying” under conditions.

The criteria have evolved

For this, you will need "to be of legal age, French (or to reside stably and regularly in France, Editor's note), able to express one's choice with discernment until the last stage, be suffering from a serious and incurable illness with a life-threatening prognosis in the short or medium term and physical or psychological suffering refractory to treatments", recalled Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, on May 26, in La Tribune Dimanche.

The Minister of Health, Catherine Vautrin, poses as "guarantee of the balance of the text". But will she have the means ? This is the subject of an intense parliamentary battle.

Thousands of amendments

Nearly 3 300 amendments were tabled, more than half of which were signed by LR and RN elected officials, against assisted suicide.

While the left-wing deputies, supported by elected officials from Macronie, on the contrary expanded this right in committee, further straining the right.

Two amendments from Renaissance and the PS now open it to people suffering from an incurable illness "in an advanced or terminal phase".< /em>