The French Constitutional Council has approved the main points of the controversial pension reform. In a statement published this evening, the top guardians of the constitution approved, among other things, the most important reform project of President Emmanuel Macron’s government, raising the retirement age from 62 to 64. They rejected other points of the reform project.
After the decision of the Constitutional Council, further protests are to be expected in France. Since the law was passed through a legal constitutional gimmick, the protests had become increasingly radical in recent weeks.
Macron has already announced that he will seek contact with the unions again after the Constitutional Council’s decision. According to surveys, more than two thirds of the French reject the pension reform.
