Overview

• A student-launched petition surpassed one million validated signatures from over 30 departments, unlocking the parliamentary mechanism for a public debate on the petition text.
• The Conférence des présidents of the National Assembly must now decide whether to schedule the unprecedented debate, which can only address the petition and not the law itself.
• Left-wing deputies referred the Duplomb law to the Constitutional Council on July 11, challenging its procedural and environmental legality and pausing any further legislative review.
• Adopted on July 8, the law reinstates the neonicotinoid pesticide acetamiprid under derogation for crops, drawing warnings from apiculturists and environmental health advocates.
• Assembly President Yaël Braun-Pivet has expressed support for debating public grievances but reiterated that the vote-passed law cannot be amended or repealed through the petition process.