French President Emmanuel Macron this Saturday unveiled amendments to the law raising the retirement age from 62 to 64 after the Constitutional Council approved most of the text.
The reform, which caused strong protests in the streets, was published on Friday morning in the Official Journal, reports the French news agency AFP.
Following the decision of the Constitutional Council on Friday, the unions asked Macron “not to promulgate the law”, but the president did not accept the request.
Macron had 15 days after most of the reform measures were approved by the Constitutional Council to put his signature and thus make the law applicable.
In the first paragraph of the code, “sixty-two” is replaced by “sixty-four”.
The Constitutional Council approved most of the pension reform, but repealed six articles, especially two concerning the encouragement of hiring workers over 55 in large companies.
According to the Constitutional Council, these articles have no place in the law on the financing of social security.
The Constitutional Observer also rejected a request to put the pension reform in a citizen-sponsored referendum.
To overcome the uncertainty in the parliamentary vote, Macron resorted to an article in the Constitution that allows the adoption of a pension law without putting it to a vote in the National Assembly.
“There are no winners and no losers,” Prime Minister Elisabeth Bourne commented, referring to the “end of the institutional and democratic path” of the text adopted by the National Assembly after using the article in question.
Trade unions opposed Macron’s initiative, and protests continued in several French cities on Saturday evening.
According to the Spanish agency EFE, street furniture was burned in Paris, including about 30 trash cans, and clashes between police and demonstrators led to the arrest of 112 people.
Rennes, in northeastern France, was another of the cities in which notable riots were reported, with hundreds of youths setting fire to the door of a police station and the entrance to an old religious building.
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