Pensions: the sword of Damocles of the shared initiative referendum

Opponents of pension reform have not exhausted all their cartridges. Some 250 parliamentarians paved the way on Monday for a consultation of citizens on the retirement age using a complex and still little used procedure.

This recourse to the referendum of shared initiative (RIP) via the filing of a dedicated bill was made official on the very day when the government cleared the last obstacle to the adoption of the bill in the Assembly via the recourse in Article 49.3 of the Constitution.