The opponents of the controversial pension reform in France have failed in another attempt to overturn the long-decided plan. The Constitutional Council in Paris today also rejected a second opposition request for a referendum.
There are no longer any great prospects 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 request for a referendum to cap the retirement age to 62 as inadmissible. He had also found the reform to be fundamentally legal. In this respect, the second application was given little chance of success.
With the reform that Macron has now put into effect, the retirement age will gradually increase from September 1 to 64. But protests against the project continue. Most recently, on May 1st, there were mass demonstrations against the reform. On June 6, the unions again called for demonstrations.
