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Macron enacts the pension reform at dawn after the endorsement of the Constitutional

2023-04-15T14:30:44.568Z


Unions and the left opposition had called on the president to renounce the unpopular law that raises the retirement age to 64.


The pension reform, the flagship project of the Emmanuel Macron presidency, is already a reality.

A few hours after the Constitutional Council cleared the last legal obstacle, Macron promulgated in the early hours of Saturday the law that will increase the retirement age in France from 62 to 64 years.

The President of the Republic, by publishing the law in the

Official Gazette

, has disregarded the unions, which asked him to renounce promulgating it "to calm the anger" of the country.

The left opposition wanted to renegotiate it in Parliament.

The reform can now enter into force from September.

There is no going back.

"The text reaches the end of its democratic process," declared the Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne, on Friday after learning of the Constitutional ruling.

"Tonight, there is no winner or loser."

Macron has invited the unions to meet him at the Élysée next Tuesday to open a dialogue on the new social measures.

The unions, which made it a condition that the president avoid promulgating the pension reform, have rejected the invitation, and have gathered at the May Day demonstrations.

The Constitutional, on Friday, endorsed the essence of the law, and only totally or partially ruled out six of the 36 articles that it consists of.

At the same time, he rejected an initiative by the parliamentary left to organize a referendum that, in the event of a

yes

victory at the end of a long and complex process, would have set the retirement age at 62 and annulled the new law.

The left has presented a second referendum initiative with a different wording.

The court must rule on May 3.

After knowing the decision of the Constitutional, spontaneous protests were declared in several cities of France.

In Rennes, a group set fire to the entrance to a police station and a church;

in Paris, they set up barricades with fences and set garbage on fire.

Law enforcement officers arrested 112 people.

The promulgation puts an end to a four-month legislative process, marked by tensions in the National Assembly, massive demonstrations in the streets and strikes in various sectors that, however, have never managed to paralyze the country.

About seven out of ten Frenchmen were opposed to the reform.

In addition to the increase to 64 years of retirement age, the new law advances by eight years the entry into force of the requirement of 43 years of contributions to collect the full pension, a measure adopted in 2014 with the socialist president François Hollande.

In the campaign that brought Macron to re-election a year ago, he promised to reform pensions.

Since this morning, he can say that he has complied.

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Source: elparis

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