"Safeguards shattered": Marine Le Pen reaffirms her opposition to the right to assisted dying

The president of the RN group in the National Assembly, Marine Le Pen, reaffirmed to the press on Tuesday, May 13, her opposition to the text aiming to create a right to assisted death .

"Personally, I am opposed to it," she said, affirming that she would nevertheless allow "total freedom" to vote to the deputies in her group. According to an RN official, approximately 80% of the party's deputies are opposed. Marine Le Pen criticized the text as lacking sufficient "safeguards" after the Social Affairs Committee meeting.

"The safeguards that one could have hoped for on such a serious text were shattered by the committee and its vote," she declared.

Before adding: "I consider that the text that came out of the committee is a text that does not ensure respect for caregivers or the collection of consent."

The RN figure assured that she would not vote for it, regardless of the amendments that might be adopted during the session.

On the other hand, she says she is "completely in agreement" with the palliative care law, also being debated in the National Assembly. "We need a massive development of this palliative care. It is a failure of our country to see, in a significant number of departments, that there are still no structures to be able to offer palliative care to our compatriots."

The National Assembly is due to examine Olivier Falorni's (Modem) bill creating a "right to assisted dying" from the end of this week or the beginning of next week. The text is based on a bill defended in spring 2024 by Health Minister Catherine Vautrin , on which Marine Le Pen had expressed a similar position.