On the form, its model is the referendum of shared initiative on the privatization of Aéroports de Paris. Basically, this time it is about the hospital. A bill for “universal access to a quality public hospital service” will in fact be submitted to the Constitutional Council on Wednesday in order to open a shared initiative referendum (RIP) on this text, the association announced on Monday. is at the origin.
First step taken for the collective “Our hospital is you “: 203 deputies and senators” from 11 political groups “gave their support to his referendum project, more than the 185 required to table the bill on the Bureau des Sages du Palais Royal.
Material, human and funding resources for the hospital
What will be done “Wednesday at 1:30 pm” specifies in a press release the association, which will then hold a press conference in front of the Constitutional Council. The institution will then have “one month to verify the number of signatories, the object of the text and its conformity with the Constitution”.
Available on the collective’s website, the bill includes 11 articles aimed at “really allocating the necessary means for care”, in particular “in terms of beds and caregivers”, as well as “defining the fair terms and conditions of the financing of the hospital ”and“ democratize its governance ”.
If the Wise Men validate it, “the text of the law could be submitted to the approval of the French” for nine months, that is until May 2022, thus offering the instigators of the referendum the opportunity to influence the presidential election.
4.8 million signatures for the examination of the text
These include the Inter-Hospital and Inter-Emergency healthcare groups, but also Emmaus, Médecins du Monde, the Salvation Army and Oxfam.
The hardest part would however remain to come: for their text to be examined by Parliament, it would have to obtain 4.8 million signatures, or 10% of the electorate. To date, the only shared initiative referendum authorized by the Constitutional Council has ended in failure: in March 2020, less than 1.1 million people had opposed the privatization of Aéroports de Paris.