France’s highest constitutional court approved the law on Friday, leading to widespread demonstrations
has signed his controversial pension reform into law, defying three months of protests and pleas from unions not to implement the legislation.
The nine-member constitutional council ruled in favour of key provisions of the reform, including raising the retirement age to 64 and extending the years of work required for a full pension, saying the legislation was in accordance with French law. “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, referring to the retirement age.
“Stay the course. That’s my motto,” Macron said Friday as he inspected Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, four years after a devastating fire nearly destroyed the gothic monument. Bikes, e-scooters and garbage were set on fire in the capital overnight while protests rallying hundreds erupted in other cities, including Marseille and Toulouse.
Unions issued a joint statement urging Macron not to sign the legislation into law, saying the issue was “not finished”.
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