Posted Sep 28, 2022, 11:32 AM
The deputy for Charente-Maritime, Olivier Falorni, a fervent supporter of the “right to die with dignity” and until then a member of no political group in the Assembly, announced on Wednesday that he had joined the elected Modem. The centrist group will thus go from 49 to 50 members, and the majority, with the allies Renaissance and Horizons, from 249 to 250 deputies, still far from the threshold of 289 deputies to reach an absolute majority.
Olivier Falorni specifies in a press release that he will be “an independent deputy, member of the Democratic group”. “I have the essential assurance of being able to keep my freedom, which will never be negotiable because it is at the heart of my identity”, insists the former socialist, who passed through the Radical Left Party.
“It was obviously not possible to join the Nupes which, under the guardianship of Mr. Mélenchon, practices a systematic and sectarian opposition, therefore sterile and even harmful”, considers the deputy. He intends to carry “constructively (his) proposals and (his) convictions”, those “of the center-left, resolutely social-democratic, radically secular and republican”.
Under the previous five-year term, Olivier Falorni had brought before the Assembly in April 2021 a bill authorizing “active medical assistance in dying”. The principle had been approved by 240 deputies, but the examination of the text could not be completed because of thousands of amendments intended to obstruct.
Emmanuel Macron announced a citizens’ convention with a view to a possible new “legal framework” by the end of 2023. The president, who plans to make it the major societal reform of his second five-year term, does not exclude either a way out parliamentary nor a referendum. “Advances on the subject of the end of life have facilitated” the attachment to the majority, Olivier Falorni told AFP.
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