The French authorities confirmed that on April 14, the Constitutional Council will define whether Emmanuel Macron’s decree on pension reform remains firm. The country has been submerged in social protest for two months now.
After the tenth consecutive strike, France prepares for The final decision which will validate the President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. This Wednesday it was announced that the Constitutional Council will define the next April 14th whether the changes in the pension system promoted by the government will remain firm.
The announcement comes a day after hundreds of thousands of people protested in the streets, for the tenth time since January, the withdrawal of the reform, which pushes retirement age from 62 to 64 by 2030.
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14A: France defines Macron’s pension reform
Thus, it was confirmed that the Constitutional Council must rule on the validity of the reform after appeals filed by opponents of the law, and a request from the left opposition to call a referendum to limit the legal retirement age to 62 years.
This jurisdiction, guarantor of the conformity of the law with the Constitution of 1958“will issue its decisions on Friday April 14 at the end of the day“, after an oral hearing scheduled for April 4, reads a statement, reported the French news agency AFP.
Protests and tenth consecutive strike
the protests They radicalized on March 16when Macron He decided to adopt his project by decree, fearing that he would lose the vote in Parliament and after activating a series of legal mechanisms that limited the debates.
France has been plunged into a deep social and political crisis for just over two months due to this reform, which the government considers crucial to avoid a future deficit in the pension fund, but which two out of three French people reject, according to polls.
The government and unions claim to be looking for a way out of the conflict, but they hold out in their positions: the union organizations ask for the paralysis or the withdrawal of the reform, but the government responds that it has already been adopted.
After refusing a union request to seek “mediation”, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne has invited the unions to a meeting next week, although the government has already warned that they will not discuss the retirement age.
“I’ll talk about it. And if they tell me: ‘You can’t talk about it’, (…) then we’ll leave”, warned today the leader of the CFDT union, Laurent Berger. The unions called for a new day of protests on April 6.
Source: Ambito
