French President Emmanuel Macron announced the presentation in April of a law on death with dignity, although with a number of restrictions on access to it, and admitted that he was touched by a letter he received from the famous French singer Francoise Hardy. who had cancer of the lymphatic vessels since 2004.

In a joint interview with the Catholic publication “La Croix“and to the progressive”Liberation“, Emmanuel Macron He clarified that the law that will be presented to parliament “is not assisted suicide” or “euthanasia as such.”

The leader noted that the draft includes a number of criteria that limit access, distancing this rule from the legislation of Switzerland, a country that recently helped to die Parisian film director Jean-Luc Godard (91 years old).

The President named four conditions: there will be reserved for people of legal age; Those affected will need to have a clear understanding (which excludes patients with Alzheimer’s disease); they will have to survive incurable disease with a fatal prognosis in the short or medium term; and the patient’s physical and psychological suffering will be assessed.

“This is the law of fraternity because it allows us to choose the least bad thing when death is at hand,” said Macron, who had just declared protection of access to abortion in the French constitution.

The President explained that the text will first go through the State Council to check its compliance Magna Carta and that only in April it will be in the Council of Ministers, and the first reading will take place in May.

“With so many problems, we are not going to ask for urgent processing,” said the head of state, who did not want to take any risks as to when the text might be approved.

Macron’s Renaissance party and its allies have a relative majority in the lower house and will need support from both the left and the right to be able to approve the norm, something that is far from a given.