HE Constitutional Council France supported the main pillars of constitutional reform promoted by the Government, including 64 year old retirement age delayand rejected an opposition attempt to force a referendum.
The judges annulled six provisions included in the reform, including the ‘known’.index senior‘, a system proposed to encourage hiring of the elderly, but they adopted the most controversial aspects of the text constitutionally envisioning new mobilization in the streets.
France lived on Thursday twelfth day of protests and strikes Against this reform, in which hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of big cities. The mobilization runs until January, and unions have warned that they will continue with them if certain articles of the law remain unchanged, such as increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64.
The Élysée called the unions to meet next Tuesday. a meeting with macron wanting to celebrate whatever the decision The Constitution was adopted by the Council. There was already an initial meeting with Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, which ended without progress.
Opposition criticism
Former presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon, La Francia Insumisa (LFI) regretted the Council’s opinion. “it is more concerned with the needs of the presidential monarchy than the needs of the sovereign people”. “The fight continues,” he declared.
The far-right Marine Le Pen warned that although the “institutional process” has been shelved, the “political destiny” of the reform is not over yet, because “the people will have the last word”. “. It is up to him to “prepare the alternation” that can review “this useless and unjust reform.”
Macron has yet to publish the law, as he has promised from the beginning to await the Constitutional Council’s decision, but would sign it “in the next few days” after receiving approval from the Élysée in the jurisdiction, according to sources quoted by the BFMTV network.