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The President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, promulgated the law on pension reform overnight, which includes the postponement of the legal retirement age to 64, according to the Official newspaper of saturdayafter validation of the text by the Constitutional Council.
After three months of crisis, the Constitutional Council validated, on Friday, the essentials of the pension reform, including the postponement of the legal age to 64, while nevertheless censoring six secondary provisions of the text and blocking, moreover, a first request for a referendum of shared initiative (RIP) from the left.
Spontaneous demonstrations took place on Friday in Paris and in many provincial towns such as Marseille, Lyon, Rennes or Bordeaux, sometimes interspersed with damage.