Overview
- Laurant Panifous told senators the upper chamber will open debate on the two texts on January 12, with a return to the National Assembly slated for February 2026.
- Olivier Falorni and Charles Biétry delivered a letter urging President Emmanuel Macron to call a referendum before summer 2026 if no law is adopted.
- The letter denounces repeated postponements as indecent for terminally ill patients who do not have time to wait.
- The palliative-care and aid-to-die bills passed their first reading in the National Assembly in May, but the Senate’s examination was delayed after François Bayrou’s government fell.
- Parliamentary sources anticipate the Senate majority could alter the aid-to-die measure, and two readings in each chamber are still needed before any final adoption.