After the National Assembly’s positive vote on Tuesday June 30 for the bill creating a right to assisted dying, the flagship promise of Emmanuel Macron’s second term, reactions multiplied.
“Reason and fraternity cry out in favor of priority and generous promotion of palliative care,” maintains the Archbishop of Paris Laurent Ulrich in a press release. “Today, there is still time to give up taking this path which is not that of a fraternal future.”
The French palliative care society evokes a law built “against caregivers, against their experience and against their expertise (…) Entrusting the same caregiver with the power to relieve and that to cause death breaks the therapeutic alliance,” she argues.
The National Assembly 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐢 𝐬𝐮𝐫 % of voters only. Vote after vote, the gap narrows and the majority crumbles.… pic.twitter.com/CB5479uaNf
— SFAP SoinsPalliatifs (@asso_SFAP) June 30, 2026
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The Les Éligibles association and their caregivers express their “dismay” at the sight of a “hemicycle that is too often sparse”, while the Lejeune Foundation “appeals to the conscience of the Prime Minister”, denouncing his “mutism” and “an undemocratic force of passage”.
“The culmination of several years of work”
“This vote is the culmination of several years of work and an in-depth public debate, conducted with seriousness, respect and dignity,” reacted the President of the National Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet on social networks. Tuesday, 295 deputies voted for, and 232 against, under the eyes of former deputy Olivier Falorni, author of the bill. The lower house had already adopted the text in May 2025 (305 votes to 199) then in February 2026 (299 votes to 226).
The National Assembly adopted a new reading of the text relating to assistance in dying.
This vote is the culmination of several years of work and an in-depth public debate, conducted with seriousness, respect and dignity.
I thank all the Members who… pic.twitter.com/nurbsmTnOd
— Yaël Braun-Pivet (@YaelBRAUNPIVET) June 30, 2026
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The reform will now go back to the Senate, which should again reject the text during its examination from July 7. The Senate Social Affairs Committee should propose on Wednesday to reject the text outright via the adoption of a prior rejection motion, a parliamentary source indicated on Tuesday. Examination of the text in the Senate should therefore only last a few hours.
The government plans to give the last word to the National Assembly where the final vote is set for July 15, the final stage of a legislative journey started in 2022.
