The unpopular pension reform, with its flagship measure of lowering the retirement age to 64, was enacted on Saturday morning in Official newspaper, after validation of the main part of the text by the Constitutional Council.
Why was the pension reform validated and the RIP rejected? The explanations of the Constitutional Council
After the decision of the Constitutional Council on Friday, the inter-union had asked “solemnly” to President Emmanuel Macron of “not enacting the law”. A request remained a dead letter: by promulgating the text, the Head of State opposed an end of inadmissibility.
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The President of the Republic had fifteen days after the validation of most of the reform measures on Friday by the Constitutional Council to affix his signature, thus giving it the force of text.
“The Social Security Code is thus amended (…) In the first paragraph, the word: “sixty-two” is replaced by the word: “sixty-four””states the text.
The Constitutional Council on Friday validated the essentials of the pension reform and blocked a first request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) from the left, which hoped to start collecting 4.8 million signatures for an unprecedented consulting the French.
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“There is no winner or loser”assured Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, referring to “the end of the institutional and democratic journey” of the text adopted in the Assembly after a 49.3.
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” It is not finished “promised the inter-union in response, convinced that not enacting the law was the “only way to calm anger (…)”who refused an invitation from Emmanuel Macron.
Pensions: the inter-union wants to continue the mobilization despite the validation by the Constitutional Council
The Constitutional Council recognized the “unusual character” the accumulation of procedures aimed at restricting debate in Parliament.
