Emmanuel Macron announced on Friday that a new citizens’ convention would be launched by the end of the year, after those on the climate and the end of life. “A third convention will be launched soon, it is intended to be completed by the end of the five-year term,” he declared during an exchange with the members of the Citizens’ Convention on the end of life at the Economic Council, social and environmental (CESE).
The theme will be studied in conjunction with the CESE “in the coming months” and it will be “launched before the end of the year”, added Emmanuel Macron. “We can totally imagine having citizen initiative conventions,” also noted the Head of State. The End of Life Convention brought together some 200 French people chosen at random for several months to consider a change in the law regarding end of life and then give recommendations.
A project presented on April 10
This work resulted in a project presented on April 10 to the Council of Ministers and which began its legislative journey, likely to last up to two years, on Monday in the National Assembly. Assistance in dying will be reserved for adult patients, born in France or long-term residents of the country, and able to clearly express their wishes.
It will also be necessary to experience intolerable and impossible to treat suffering, physical or psychological. Finally, the vital prognosis must be undertaken in the short or medium term. For many observers, the executive had, however, neglected the conclusions of the Citizens’ Climate Convention.