The former Minister of Justice, exceptional guest of BFMTV this Friday evening, nevertheless indicated that France was not experiencing a democratic crisis despite the tense political and social context linked to the pension reform.
“As befits a democracy, the country will choose.” Former Minister of Justice Robert Badinter was the exceptional guest of BFMTV this Friday evening. The former Keeper of the Seals, who leaves Vladimir Poutine, l’accusation with Bruno Cotte and Alain Pellet at Fayard editions, gave his view on the social and political context in France, a few days before May 1st where a major mobilization against the pension reform is expected.
“The next elections will probably also be about ‘retirement at 62’, others will say ‘retirement at 60’ or others will say ‘retirement at 65’,” the former minister said on our antenna.
“The Constitutional Council is still criticized by the applicants for the cancellation”
The man who chaired the Constitutional Council for nearly ten years – between 1986 and 1995 – also reconsidered the decision of the Elders to validate the essentials of the government’s text, including the extension of the legal retirement age to 64 years old.
“The Constitutional Council is always criticized by those who are asking for the annulment”, declared Robert Badinter on BFMTV, “in judicial life, it is rare that someone who has lost his case does not curse his judges, the Constitutional Council does not escape this common law”.
The one who does not present himself as “a man of pensions” but “naturally dedicated to work” added that the political situation “evolves” in democracies and “that such a majority establishes a law postponing the age of retirement, then a different majority to shorten the working time… It is dedicated to the very evolution of the free and democratic ballot”.
While the government has resorted to 49.3 for its reform and recently postponed a bill on immigration for lack of a majority, Robert Badinter however refuted any democratic crisis “in France. “When I see our compatriots mobilizing, like I understand it, about retirement, we see that they did not experience the war”, declared the former minister on BFMTV, recalling the danger represented by the war in Ukraine, “at the heart of the Europe”.
