France’s Constitutional Council on Friday endorsed the main pillars of the constitutional reform pushed by the government, including the delay to 64 of the retirement age, and rejected an opposition initiative to try to force a referendum, according to Franceinfo.
The pension reform is one of the star legislative projects of the president, Emmanuel Macron, who has always ruled out touching the most controversial aspects of the text claiming that it is a »necessary» law that brings France closer to the regulatory framework of other European countries.
France experienced on Thursday the twelfth day of protests and strikes against this reform, in which hundreds of thousands of people again took to the streets of major cities. The mobilizations date back to January and the unions have already warned that they will continue with them if there are no changes in some of the pillars of the law, such as increasing the retirement age from 62 to 64.
The Elysée has summoned the unions for next Tuesday, for a meeting with Macron that they want to hold regardless of the decision taken by the Constitutional Council. There was already a first meeting with the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, which ended without progress.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
