The French Constitutional Council rejects the referendum on pension reform

Updated 3/5/2023 7:46 PM

The decision on the controversial pension reform in France was made a long time ago, but opponents are trying everything to overturn it. Now they had to beat in court.

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Opponents of France’s controversial pension reform have failed with yet another attempt to scrap the long-determined scheme. The Paris Constitutional Council also rejected the opposition’s second request for a referendum on Wednesday. There is little prospect for the opposition or the unions to stop President Emmanuel Macron’s reform after all.

As early as mid-April, the Constitutional Council rejected an initial proposal to hold a referendum to set the retirement age at 62 as unacceptable. It was also found that the reform is essentially legal. In this regard, the second application was given little chance of success.

Protests against pension reform in France: Macron wants to calm the situation

with whom Macron According to the reform that has now entered into force, the retirement age will gradually rise from September 1 to 64 years. But protests against the project continue. Recently, on May 1, there were mass demonstrations against reform. On 6 June, the unions again called for demonstrations.

Meanwhile, Macron and his government hope that the situation will calm down and want to move on to other issues as soon as possible. In order to restore more confidence among the population, a week ago, Prime Minister Elizabeth Born introduced a 100-day program with improvement steps in areas such as education, health and homeland security.

As with pension reform, the government is in trouble, having lost an outright majority in parliament since last summer’s elections. So Bourne delayed the new immigration law until the fall. (MT/DSPA)