The Chamber of the Chamber rejected an amendment presented by some deputies of the Mixed group, which provided for euthanasia, during the first votes on the bill on assisted suicide, in implementation of the sentence of the Constitutional Court of November 2019, on the matter of dj Fabo and Marco Cappato. But 52 MEPs vote in favor of this possibility.
Most of the amendments were presented by the center-right, in an attempt to restrict the criteria for access to medically assisted voluntary death.
One of the amendments instead (presented by Andrea Cecconi, Giorgio Trizzino and Riccardo Magi), modified some words of the second article of the provision in such a way as to allow euthanasia. The rapporteur Alfredo Bazoli (Pd) expressed the opposite opinion precisely for this reason: "We want to remain within the perimeter of assisted suicide" provided for by the ruling of the Council. So both the center-right and center-left groups were against it, but in the secret of the ballot box there were still 52 yeses to euthanasia, although the vast majority expressed themselves against (389).
The Chamber will continue examining the bill in the next few days, which the center-right continues to try to block, with suppressive amendments to the various articles. The other speaker, Nicola Provenza (M5s), however, warned, recalling the "regulatory vacuum" after the ruling of the Council, that if it is not filled, it entrusts everything to the decisions of the Courts: "We risk damaging the very weak and the people more exposed to abuse ".
(Unioneonline / D)
