Overview

• The citizen-initiated petition has topped 1.6 million signatures, breaking the Assemblée nationale’s record and triggering a right to a parliamentary debate
• Yaël Braun-Pivet has indicated she will include the petition on the agenda for a public session scheduled in mid-September
• The Constitutional Council’s ruling is due by August 10, after which President Macron must decide whether to promulgate the Duplomb law or call for a second reading
• The government has proposed referring the law to the Anses health agency for a scientific assessment of its conditional reintroduction of acetamiprid
• Counter-petitions supporting the Duplomb law remain marginal while Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has ordered prosecutors to act firmly against threats targeting lawmakers