within the Senate, the textual content on assisted dying proposed for vote, largely emptied of its substance, is rejected | EUROtoday

Buried after being deboned. The Senate rejected, on Wednesday January 28, its personal model, largely emptied of its substance, of the proposed legislation (PPL) opening help in dying adopted by the National Assembly on May 27, 2025 at first studying. Nearly 181 senators voted in opposition to, 122 for and 38 abstained. By this rejection, the senators lose any risk, at this stage, of influencing the content material of the textual content adopted by the deputies. In the absence of a senatorial textual content, the Palais-Bourbon will resume at second studying, on February 16, the examination of the PPL as ensuing from its work in spring 2025.

The senators, however, adopted, on Wednesday, the PPL geared toward guaranteeing equal entry for all to assist and palliative care by 307 votes for and 17 in opposition to, with unanimity equal to that of the deputies, on May 27.

Putting the Senate’s mark on the societal reform carried out by Emmanuel Macron, which goals to authorize sure sufferers to entry a deadly product, was the ambition of its president, Gérard Larcher, and of the right-wing and heart majority of the Palais du Luxembourg. But the second Chamber put itself out of a place to realize its goal, by way of two sequences.

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