The Constitutional Council rejected, this Wednesday, May 3, the second request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) made by the left. This provided for the prohibition to set the legal retirement age beyond 62 years.
The second RIP was initiated in extremis on April 13 by some 250 left-wing and independent deputies and senators. The next day, the Constitutional Council, under the leadership of Laurent Fabius, had validated the essentials of the pension reform, including the postponement of the legal age to 64, and rejected a first request for RIP. The law had been promulgated in the wake of Emmanuel Macron, but the battle continued.
Still united after 12 days of mobilizations, the inter-union organized a “combative” May 1st which brought together 800,000 people according to the police and 2.3 million according to the CGT, but was marked by violence. A new day of mobilization is scheduled for Tuesday, June 6.
