Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise France’s retirement age is now reality. After clearing its final hurdle when the nation’s highest constitutional authority endorsed most of the proposed law on Friday, the president wasted no time in enacting it.
filed by opposition parties in parliament, but marches and walkouts organised by the unions gave way to more spontaneous demonstrations and clashes with police in cities like Paris and Bordeaux, as protesters set fire to piles of uncollected garbage.in March and became a political crisis for Macron. However, the numbers of protesters and striking worker numbers have fallen lately, fuelling the government’s hopes that they could wait out the anger.
It also rejected arguments by the opposition that the government had abused parliamentary procedure by adding the reform to a social security budget bill to shorten debate, and by overriding politicians to pass it without a vote using the so-called 49.3 clause in the constitution.French President Emmanuel Macron in March.“Although the measures related to the pensions reform ...
The issue has bitterly divided society and united Macron’s opponents against him across the political divide.
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