The National Assembly will examine in September in committee and “at the beginning of October” in session the “comprehensive” bill against gender-based and sexual violence, Sébastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday June 23. “I am setting aside government time before the finance bill, at the beginning of October, to allow discussion of the text,” replied the Prime Minister, questioned during questions to the government by the president of the socialist group Boris Vallaud.
This so-called “comprehensive” law includes 78 measures carried by around a hundred deputies from the left and the government coalition. Sébastien Lecornu and the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet will bring together the presidents of parliamentary groups “the week of July 20”, after the examination of this text by the Council of State and the Economic, Social and Environmental Council.
Since the death of Lyhanna, 11 years old, many voices have been raised to demand that the government examine a comprehensive law to combat gender-based and sexual violence against women and children. The Prime Minister stressed that the subject would require “a lot of work this summer to arrive at something that is basically up to par”, suggesting that the text should therefore be modified.
Decrees from July
“You have 16 articles overall which correspond to regulatory or organizational measures internal to the State,” underlined Sébastien Lecornu. “All of the regulatory measures will not wait,” he added, promising decrees “from the month of July, from the month of August, from the month of September.”
Six measures fall under the budgetary texts, and eight measures are already part of other legislative proposals which are already being examined, continued the Prime Minister. Other measures are included in government bills, either that on criminal justice by Gérald Darmanin, or that on child protection which must be discussed in July in the Assembly.
Concerning this last text, it will be examined in the Senate after the senatorial elections at the end of September and “if all goes well”, will be promulgated “as early as the month of October”, detailed Sébastien Lecornu. Finally, 17 measures of the integral law “are already satisfied”, according to the Prime Minister, who however agreed that this point of view was not “consensual”. In the end, according to him, “18 autonomous measures” must be “the subject of precise work”, he said, stressing that some were for example “contradictory” between them.
