Last Saturday, the French Constitutional Council validated a few hours before the delay of the retirement age of 62 to 64 years by 2030 and the advancement to 2027 of the contribution requirement 43 yearsand not 42, to collect a full pension.
“We decided to promulgate the Law less than 24 hours after the decision of the Constitutional Council as is the case for all economic laws and the same will enter into force in september next. We ask the French to make an effort and accept this reform,” the minister of Job, Olivier Dussopt.
Between boos and posters, Macron showed his discontent and said that “pans will not help France to get ahead”. Muttersholtz’s presence at a factory was his first public foray outside the capital since he enacted an unpopular law raising the retirement age, meaning citizens must work two more years before receiving their state pension.
For the French president, it is not possible for a society to listen only to those who “make the most noise”, while trying to highlight the positive aspects of French labor law. Demonstrators waited for Macron in front of the factory he was visiting in eastern Alsace.
The opposition’s reactions
“Macron wants to intimidate all of France overnight”lamented the opposition leader left, Jean-Luc Mélenchonwith the entry into force of the reform published around 5 in the morning in France.
For his part, the founder of The Unsubmissive France (LFI) stated that “the fight for the repeal of the law is now a question of dignity” and singled out the president for showing a “display of arrogance” by promulgating the Law so quickly.
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Photo: REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes.
“A law enacted at night, like thieves”the communist leader reacted in tune, Fabien Roussel. “What a provocation! Macron’s new bluff while the country has never been so fractured,” he tweeted. Marine Tondelierparty leader Europe Ecology The Greens (EELV).
Source: Ambito
