This complex procedure has never succeeded since its introduction into the Constitution in July 2008 under the presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy.
However, on Monday, the Constitutional Council received the bill from 252 opposition deputies and senators for a shared initiative referendum (RIP).
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It had been filed Friday on the desk of the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
The proposal provides that
“the legal retirement age cannot be set beyond 62 years”
.
Valérie Rabault, socialist deputy and signatory, sums up the issue:
“The RIP is the only instrument that can impose a referendum without going through the President of the Republic.”
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The elected official of Tarn-et-Garonne knows the file well for having been at work during a first attempt at RIP, in 2019. The text which denounced the privatization of Aéroport de Paris within the framework of the Pacte law had only collected 1.1 million supporters, far from the required count: a tenth of registered voters…
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