Clémence Guetté, member of the French National Assembly for the La France Insoumise party, published a book in which she defends the legal recognition of friendship alongside marriage, civil unions and family ties. The work, titled "Pour une politique de l'amitié" (For a politics of friendship), proposes that people should be able to celebrate partnership agreements in which they commit to caring for each other.
The author suggests that friendship should have the same legal recognition as other forms of unions and relationships already existing in the French legal system. This proposal aims to expand the concept of family and partnership to include deep friendship bonds that currently lack legal protection or recognition.
French media has received the work with highly critical reception. The media coverage has not been favorable to Guetté's book, generating debates and questioning the feasibility and need for such a legislative proposal.
The book arises in the context of a broader reflection on models of human relationships and the rights associated with different types of emotional and social bonds in contemporary French society.
