Palliative care: MPs adopt a minimal bill

Useful legislative framework or window dressing? The proposed law (PPL) aimed at guaranteeing equal access for all to support and palliative care was passed on Tuesday, May 27, by 562 votes out of 563 on first reading, during a formal ballot in the National Assembly. Although highly praised by MPs, the text has nevertheless been regularly portrayed, since its introduction in the Assembly, as "declamatory." It is also seen as a guarantee for the other proposed law, the one creating a right to assisted dying, also adopted Tuesday.

In fact, the bill is a resumption of the first part of the project on end-of-life support, wanted by Emmanuel Macron in the spring of 2024 and interrupted by the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, 2024. The text was then taken up by the deputy of Charente-Maritime Olivier Falorni (member of the Les Démocrates group) in the form of a single bill. The latter was then split into two, at the request of François Bayrou. This resulted in the submission of two texts, including the one on palliative care, sponsored by the deputy (Renaissance, Seine-Maritime) Annie Vidal.

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