The Constitutional Council has decided. The Sages validated, Friday, April 14, the essence of the pension reform, raising the legal age of departure from 62 to 64 years. The nine members of the institution, however, censored part of the text – six provisions including the “senior index” and the “senior CDI” – and challenged the proposed referendum of shared initiative (RIP) launched by the left. A second request, filed later, must however be the subject of a new decision on May 3.
The decisions of the Council, responsible for monitoring the conformity of laws with the Constitution, are not subject to any appeal.
Emmanuel Macron hopes to finally overcome the dispute that has lasted since January and hopes to relaunch this second five-year term barely a year after his re-election. The Head of State has yet to promulgate the law. He said this week that he wanted, “in a spirit of harmony”, to receive the unions next Tuesday. And should soon address the French. A summit meeting of the majority will be held Monday at the Elysée. As well as the inter-union.
The first reactions to the decisions of the Constitutional Council were not long in coming. Marine Le Pen, leader of the deputies of the National Rally (RN), assured on Twitter that “the political fate of the pension reform is not sealed”, calling on voters to “prepare the alternation which will come back to this useless and unfair reform”.
Jean-Luc Melenchon also asserts that “the fight continues”. According to him, the decisions of the Constitutional Council show that the latter “is more attentive to the needs of the presidential monarchy than to those of the sovereign people”.
